54. Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSONasked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the reports made by clergymen and others of the big falling off in the number of marriages solemnised at Easter, which they attribute mainly to the impossibility of newly-married couples securing houses; and, seeing that a continued diminution in the marriage rate is a serious menace to the future growth and well-being of the nation, what further steps beyond assisted emigration does the Government propose taking to prevent this misfortune?
§ Sir A. MONDI have no special information as to a decline in the number of Easter marriages, and if there was such a decline I should suppose that the existing industrial depression was as powerful a contributory cause as any other As regards further Government housing, I can only refer the hon. Member to my previous statements on the subject.