§ 43. Mr. HURDasked the Minister of Health how many and what rural district councils have been rejected by the Ministry as authorities to work the Housing (Rural Workers) Act, and for what reasons?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINWith the hon. Member's permission, I will circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of the 114 rural district councils whose applications to be declared local authorities under the Act in question have been rejected. The reason for refusing these applications were that the county councils propose to operate the Act.
§ Mr. HURDWas that kind of refusal to rural district councils in the right hon. Gentleman's mind when he accepted an Amendment to the Bill during its passage through the House to enable these councils to become the authorities to work the Act?
§ Following is the list:
§ List of the 114 Rural District Councils who have been refused permission to 2035 operate the Housing (Rural Workers) Act, 1926.
| Axholme, Isle of | Misterton |
| Bicester | Newcastle-under-Lyme |
| Billericay | |
| Blean | Norham and Island shires |
| Boston | |
| Bowland | Northampton |
| Bridgwater | Orsett |
| Bridport | Oundle |
| Brixworth | Oxenden |
| Bromley | Penistone |
| Bromsgrove | Penrith |
| Campden | Pewsey |
| Cannock | Plympton St. Mary |
| Carmarthen | Pontefract |
| Castle Ward | Pontypool |
| Cerne | Ramsbury |
| Chailey | Reigate |
| Chard | Ripon |
| Cheltenham | Rochford |
| Chester | Romford |
| Chippenham | Romney Marsh |
| Chipping Norton | Rotherham |
| Chipping Sodbury | Runcorn |
| Crick | Saffron Walden |
| Crowmarsh | Shaftesbury |
| Cuckfield | Sherborne |
| Culmstock | Southwell |
| Dartford | South Westmorland |
| Devizes | Stapleford |
| Doncaster | Stone |
| Dorking | Strood |
| East Ashford | Stroud |
| East Dean and United Parishes | Tadcaster |
| Tarvin | |
| East Elloe | Taunton |
| Escrick | Tenterden |
| Frome | Thame |
| Gainsborough | Thornbury |
| Gloucester | Tiverton |
| Goole | Tonbridge |
| Guildford | Totnes |
| Haltwhistle | Uckfield |
| Hambledon | Upton-on-Severn |
| Henley | Uttoxoter |
| Honiton | Wakefield |
| Hoo | Wellingborough |
| Horncastle | Wellington |
| Hunslet | West Ashford |
| Kettering | Wetherby |
| Keynsham | Weymouth |
| Knaresborough | Wharfedale |
| Lexden and Winstree | Wheatenhurst |
| Whitehaven | |
| Lichfield | Williton |
| Long Ashton | Wincanton |
| Louth | Wirrall |
| Macclesfield | Wortley |
| Malpas | Yeovil |
| Martley | Ystradgynlais |
§ NOTE.—In addition to the above permission has been refused to Neath Rural District Council to operate the Act in the Parish of Ystradfellte Rural (in the County of Brecknock). The Ministry has consented to their application to operate in their own district in the County of Glamorgan.
§ 44. Mr. HURDasked the Minister of Health if he will name the 22 rural district councils to which, on 28th April last, approval had been given to carry out the Housing (Rural Workers) Act; and will he state what other councils have received similar approval from the Ministry?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINWith the hon. Member's permission, I will circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of the 70 rural district councils which have so far been declared local authorities under the Act in question.
§ Following is the list:
§ List of the 70 rural district councils which have been declared local authorities under the Housing (Rural Workers) Act, 1926:
| Abingdon. | Hambleden |
| Alcester | Henstead |
| Amersham | Hungerford |
| Atherstone | Kings Lynn |
| Aylesbury | Llantrisant and Llantwit Fardre |
| Aylsham | |
| Blofield | Loddon and Clavering |
| Bradfield | |
| Brailes | Long Crendon |
| Buckingham | Marshland |
| Cardiff | Meriden |
| Chester-le-Street | Mitford and Launditch |
| Chirk | |
| Cookham | Monks Kirby |
| Coventry | *Neath |
| Depwade | Newbury |
| Docking | Newport Pagnell |
| Downham | Nuneaton |
| Durham | Penybont |
| Easington | Rugby |
| Easthampstead | Ruthin |
| Erpingham | St. Faiths |
| Eton | Sedgefield |
| Faringdon | Smallburgh |
| Farnborough | Solihull |
| Flegg, East and West | Southam |
| Stockton | |
| Foleshill | Stratford-on-Avon |
| Forehoe | Sunderland |
| Freebridge Lynn | Swaffham |
| Thetford | Wight, Isle of |
| Walsingham | Windsor |
| Wallingford | Wing |
| Wantage | Winslow |
| Warwick | Wokingham |
| Wayland | Wrexham |
| Weardale | Wycombe. |
| * Except as regards the parish of Ystradfellte Rural (in the county of Brecknock), which is administered by Neath Rural District Council. |