55. Viscountess ASTORasked the Minister of Health whether he has agreed to the Cambridge town council letting land at a nominal rent to a local society with a view to building houses to be let at 5s. 6d. per week; and what other councils have made similar arrangements for letting building land at nominal rents?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINA proposal of the nature referred to was recently received from the town council, but understand that the society have now another site in contemplation, and, therefore, I have not had occasion to give my consent to the letting. As regards the second part of the question, I am not aware of a case; but a reduction in the price of land is one of the ways of giving subsidies open to a local authority under the Housing, etc., Act, 1923, and this method has been followed in some instances, though no separate record of it has been kept.