§ 37. Mr. POTTERasked the Minister of Health whether he will request local authorities to consider the advisability of restricting the building of houses provided by State assistance to the type of dwelling costing no more than £450, in order that persons in a position to pay economic rents should not be enabled to obtain by means of subsidised rentals cheap houses which they could buy through building societies?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Mr. Ernest Brown)I am sending to my hon. Friend a copy of a circular issued to local authorities in England and Wales on the 12th January last on the subject. The latest returns available indicate that the average cost of houses now being erected by them is well within the figure mentioned by him.