§ 81. Major GLYNasked the Minister of Health whether he will give effect to the principle that firms or public companies inaugurating factories or other businesses in rural areas should take into account the necessity of providing housing accommodation for either the total number of workers who will be engaged in such work, or a proportion of such workers; and at what proportion of the total number of houses he would be prepared to fix the quota required to be provided by such companies?
§ Sir K. WOODWhile my right hon. Friend is anxious to facilitate by all means at his disposal the provision of housing accommodation for the employés of new undertakings, he does not think that it would be practicable! to introduce legislation making the provision of such accommodation compulsory, or to fix a. quota as suggested in the last part of the question. My right hon. Friend is glad to say that a considerable number of houses are already being erected by firms for their workpeople.