§ 38. Mr. Errollasked the Minister of Labour the gross cost of running the transference hostels; and what payments are made for accommodation by the transferred workers who use these hostels.
§ Mr. WatkinsonThe total expenditure on the industrial hostels for transferred workers, which are managed on behalf of my Ministry by the National Service Hostels Corporation Ltd., was £3,374,365 in 1952–53. The present charges which have been fixed for residents are 47s. a week for men and 42s. a week for women for accommodation and 15 main meals. Receipts from residents for the same period were £2,277,688.