Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Military Service. – in the House of Commons at on 16 January 1940.
Mr. David Adams:
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will give consideration to a scheme whereby parents of school children will be required to agree to leaving their children in the evacuation areas once they are evacuated until they reach school-leaving age or until the resumption of peace-time education, in order to put evacuation upon a semi-permanent footing, in agreement with our expectation of a three-year war?