HC Deb 03 February 1956 vol 548 c145W
Mr. F. Noel-Baker

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many deep shelters are now available for use; and how many are to be constructed during the next twelve months.

Major Lloyd-George

Apart from the London underground railway system and the seven associated deep tubes which were specially constructed for shelter purposes in the last war, there are about a hundred tunnels and caves, giving varying degrees of overhead cover, which could be used as public air raid shelter. No new deep shelters will be constructed in the next twelve months.

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