Home Safety Committees

HC Deb 06 July 1955 vol 543 cc108-9W

Mrs. Mann

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many local authorities in England and Wales have set up home safety committees; and how they are financed.

Major Lloyd-George

So far as I am aware, no such committees have been set up by local authorities. I understand that, as a result of voluntary action, sixty-six local home safety committees have been established and that financial assistance is given to many of them by local authorities with the consent of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Housing and Local Government under Section 136 of the Local Government Act, 1948.