HC Deb 23 February 1938 vol 332 cc500-1

Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to amend the law with respect to the making of contributions out of the Exchequer and by local authorities in respect of housing accommodation provided for the working classes, and with respect to arrangements between local authorities and other persons for the provision of housing accommodation, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament—

  1. A. of such expenses as may be incurred by the Minister of Health (hereinafter referred to as 'the Minister') in making to any local authority—
    1. (1) in respect of each new house or new flat completed after the beginning of the year nineteen hundred and thirty-nine which, with the approval of the Minister, is provided by that authority by way of housing accommodation—
      1. (a) rendered necessary by displacements occurring in connection with any action taken by that authority under the Housing Act, 1936 (hereinafter referred to as the 'principal Act') for the demolition of insanitary houses, for dealing with clearance or improvement areas, or for closing parts of buildings, or
      2. (b) rendered necessary by displacements occurring in the carrying out of redevelopment under the principal Act, or
      3. (c) required for the abatement of overcrowding,
      an annual contribution for forty years of the following amount, that is to say:—
      1. (i) five pounds ten shillings or (in a case in which there are fulfilled the conditions laid down by the said Act of the present Session with reference both to the low level of the rents obtainable from working-class housing accommodation in the area of the local authority and to the inadequacy of the financial resources of that area) six pounds ten shillings; or
      2. (ii) in the case of a flat provided in a block of flats on a site the cost of which, as developed, exceeds one thousand five hundred pounds per acre, an amount not exceeding twenty-six pounds, determined in accordance with the Table appended to this Resolution; and
    2. (2) in respect of each new house or new flat completed after the beginning of the year nineteen hundred and thirty-nine which, with the approval of the Minister, is provided by, the local authority by way of housing accommodation required for 501 the agricultural population (as defined by the principal Act) of the area of the local authority, an annual contribution for a period of forty years of ten pounds or, in the special circumstances mentioned in the said Act of the present Session, a greater amount not exceeding twelve pounds; and
    3. (3) in respect of each new house or new flat which, in pursuance of arrangements with the local authority, is provided by some other person, with the approval of the Minister, by way of housing accommodation required for the agricultural population (as defined by the principal Act) of the area of the local authority, an annual contribution for a period of forty years of an amount not exceeding ten pounds; and
  2. B. of such sums as may become payable by the Minister by virtue of any provisions of the said Act of the present Session—
    1. (1) amending the provisions of Subsections (1) and (3) of Section one hundred and nine of the principal Act, and directing that Sub-section (2) of that Section shall be deemed not to have come into operation until the date of the passing of the said Act of the present Session; or
    2. (2) directing—
      1. (a) that, in the circumstances mentioned in the said Act of the present Session, houses and flats are to be treated as having been completed after the beginning of the year nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, notwithstanding that they were in fact completed before the beginning of that year; or
      2. (b) that, in the circumstances so mentioned, two or more buildings containing flats shall be treated as if the several buildings were one building on a single site; or
    3. (3) amending the provisions of Subsection (1) of Section ninety-four of the principal Act; or
    4. (4) enabling the Minister to continue to make payments by way of a contribution under. Section one of the Housing, etc., Act, 1923, in respect of any house or flat which, with the assistance of a local authority, has been provided by some other person, notwithstanding that it has become vested in the local authority:
Provided that this resolution shall not, by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph A thereof, authorise the payment of any expenses the payment of which is authorised by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph.

Where the cost per acre of the site as developed— £ s. d.
exceeds £1,500 but does not exceed £4,000 11 0 0
exceeds £4,000 but does not exceed £5,000 12 0 0
exceeds £5,000 but does not exceed £6,000 13 0 0
exceeds £6,000 but does not exceed £8,000 14 0 0