Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Defence. – in the House of Commons at on 8 February 1940.
Sir John Anderson
, Combined Scottish Universities
Consent has been given in quite a large number of cases, something like 2,000. In all but a very few of the other cases it is not, I understand, the fact that consent has been refused but that the local authority have not succeeded in eliciting replies from the owners concerned.