§ 56. Major MILNERasked the Minister of Health the number of housing schemes which have been suspended or retarded following the suggestions to local authorities that all expenditure should be reduced to a minimum; and if he can state the number of persons who would have been employed had the various housing schemes been continued?
Sir H. YOUNGI have been informed of only nine cases covering quite a small number of houses in which any definite action has been taken by the local authority to curtail or suspend their housing programme. The hon. Member will see from a copy of a circular which I am sending to him that he is under a misapprehension in stating that it has been suggested to local authorities that all expenditure should be reduced to a minimum irrespective of its character or purpose.