Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Government Departments – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 30 June 1947.
Mr Charles Key
, Poplar Bow and Bromley
12:00,
30 June 1947
Yes, Sir. I am aware that 32 Blackpool hotels or boarding houses are still held on Government requisition and of the difficulties experienced by the town as a result. My Department has for some time past been taking steps to provide other accommodation for the civil servants now in hotels, including the erection of new buildings in Newcastle for the Ministry of National Insurance. The question of locating some Government staffs permanently in the town is being considered but this would not enable requisitioned hotels to be released any sooner than under present arrangements.