§ 35. Mr. MARDY JONESasked the Minister of Health what is the total number of houses owned and let under the Housing Acts, 1919, 1923 and 1924 by each urban and each rural district in each of the following coalfields: South Wales and Monmouthshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland; and will be state the total arrears of rates and of rents to the 31st March, 1928, in each of the said coalfields?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI will forward to the hon. Member a statement showing the number of houses erected under the Housing Acts of 1919, 1923 and 1924 by each local authority in the coalfields referred to, but I have no particulars as to how many of these, if any, have been disposed of by way of sale. Information with regard to the last part of the question is not in my possession.
Mr. CHAMBERLAINAs the answer involves a tabular statement I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the answer:
§ Precise information in the form desired by the hon. Member is not available, but the following statement gives, as at the 1st November, 1928, the ratio which the numbers of non-parlour and parlour houses arranged for bear to the total numbers arranged for by local authorities and private enterprise respectively.
§ Mr. JONESDo I understand from the Minister that the figures will be published in the OFFICIAL REPORT?