HC Deb 05 August 1943 vol 391 c2429
6. Mr. Craven-Ellis

asked the Minister of Health whether the Government post war building policy will provide for all houses, commercial buildings, works and factories being licensed for a period of years not exceeding the economic life of such buildings?

Miss Horsbrugh

A sub-committee of the Central Housing Advisory Committee under the chairmanship of my hon. Friend the Member for Peckham {Mr. Silkin) is investigating this question in its application to houses, and further consideration will be given to this aspect of the matter on receipt of the sub-committee's report.

Mr. Craven-Ellis

Will the hon. Lady intimate to the Committee that to license property for an economic number of years will remove slum property entirely in future?

Miss Horsbrugh

The hon. Gentleman has put forward a point in which many of us are greatly interested, and if he has any other suggestions and amplifications to make perhaps he will let me have them, and I will hand them to the Committee.

Mr. Craven-Ellis

Perhaps the hon. Lady will read "The Rebuilding of Britain."