§ 57. Mr. SMITH-CARINGTONasked the Minister of Health the number of houses that had been completed under the various Housing Acts in agricultural parishes in England and Wales by local authorities and private enterprise, respectively, before the rate of subsidy was reduced and since the reduction, to the latest date for which statistics are available?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Sir Kingsley Wood)Statistics of the numbers of houses erected under the Housing Acts of 1919 and 1923 do not distinguish houses erected in agricultural parishes. The numbers of houses erected in such parishes under the Act of 1924 prior to the 1st October, 1927, were 8,077 by local authorities and 516 by private enterprise. The numbers erected since the 1st October, 1927, up to the 1st March, 1928, were 1,115 by local authorities and 27 by private enterprise.