§ 59. Mr. STEPHENasked the Secretary of State for Scotland the number of condemned houses in the Camlachie Parliamentary Division of Glasgow which continue to be inhabited; how many slum-clearance houses are now being built to take their place; and the latest date on which closing orders for the old houses will be issued?
§ Mr. WESTWOODI am making inquiries into the matters referred to, and will inform my hon. Friend of the result in due course.
§ Mr. STEPHENIs the Under-Secretary aware that the facts are as stated in my supplementary question with regard to these houses?
§ Mr. WESTWOODI am having inquiries made on the point referred to in my hon. Friend's supplementary question, but up to the present moment I have not had a reply.
§ Mr. STEPHENWill the hon. Gentleman expedite the inquiry?
§ Mr. WESTWOODI always do all that I can to expedite inquiries.
§ Major ELLIOTWill you prevent the hon. Gentleman from answering this question also?
§ Mr. SPEAKERThese questions have been passed at the Table.
§ Major ELLIOTI was not in any way desiring to comment on the questions which have been passed at the Table, but merely on supplementary questions which have not been passed at the Table, and which arise out of those questions. If I have said anything which in any way seems to you inadvisable, I beg to withdraw and to apologise to you.
Miss LEEArising out of the original answer, is the hon. Gentleman aware that both in Glasgow and in the county of Lanark there are thousands of families now living in condemned houses, and will have to live in them for two or three years according to the present building 1934 programme; and, although the hon. and gallant Member for Kelvingrove (Major Elliot) may not think them important enough for a supplementary question—[Interruption.]
Viscountess ASTORIs the hon. Gentleman doing all that he promised in the direction of slum clearance?
§ Mr. WESTWOODThe Noble Lady can rest assured that I am doing all that I can to fulfil every promise. [Interruption.]
§ Mr. SPEAKERI think we might conduct these questions in a more orderly way.
§ 60. Mr. STEPHENasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will consider making representations to the Glasgow Corporation to suggest a reduction in the rents of State-subsidised houses in the Camlachie Parliamentary Division of Glasgow, in view of the unemployment and resulting poverty of so many of the occupants of the houses?
§ Mr. WESTWOODI shall inquire into this matter and communicate later with my hon. Friend.