§ Viscount CURZON (by Private Notice)asked the Minister of Health whether he has received representations from the Carshalton Urban District Council to the effect that their housing scheme has been very seriously interfered with owing to the small number of bricks being laid, and can he state what are the facts?
§ Dr. ADDISONI am informed that the scheme of this Council is being delayed owing to the fact that the average number of bricks per bricklayer is less than 300 a day. I am having a special investigation made, and am in communication with the Operative Brick-layers' Society, to whom the Council have already written on the matter.
§ Viscount CURZONMay I ask whether this figure does not represent at least 200 per cent. less than before the War, and whether it is not very seriously increasing the cost of housing?
§ Dr. ADDISONIt is a very small figure, and I am glad to say it has been exceeded in the great majority of cases.