26. Miss WARDasked the Minister of Labour how many local authorities have taken advantage of the facilities offered for obtaining special financial help through the establishment of the North-Eastern Housing Development Board?
§ Lieut.-Colonel MUIRHEADI am informed that up to the present 24 local authorities in the north-eastern special area have approached the North-Eastern Housing Association in connection with the provision by the association of housing accommodation required by the authorities in relation to schemes under the Housing Acts, 1930 and 1935. Arrangements have beer or are about to be made by the association for the carrying out of schemes involving the erection of 4,109 houses and 150 flats for the councils of four county boroughs, one borough, four urban districts and two rural districts.