Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 24 January 1940.
Mr Walter Elliot
, Glasgow Kelvingrove
Not the Bank of England—the hon. Member withdrew that remark afterwards and said that the camp in question was occupied by girl clerks. The hon. Member will remember that when we were examining the problem of evacuation before the war, we were all agreed that it was necessary to consider the use of camps as shelters for adult evacuees and not solely for children. Indeed, in some parts of the House it was impressed on us as the solution of the whole evacuation difficulty. We had to examine the suitability of the camps not merely for the housing of children but for the possible housing of adults as well, and I do not deplore or apologise for the experirnent made in housing adults.