§ 94. Sir EDWIN STOCKTONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, as representing the Ministry of Health, whether the Government. has considered the effect of the policy of decontrol of all new houses built from now onwards; and whether, seeing that this would start building, he will say what are the objections, if any, to such a course?
Sir W. JOYNSON HICKSUnder the present law, there are no restrictions of any kind affecting new houses, or old houses newly converted into separate fiats or tenements, provided the houses were erected, or converted, after April, 1919. No question of decontrolling such houses, therefore, arises.