§ 76. Mr. Kirkwoodasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware of the unhealthy conditions prevailing in the emergency concrete-block houses provided by Clydebank Town Council in Dunn Street, Dalmuir, where the houses are damp, the roofs leak and water trickles into the rooms through the blocks not being properly sealed; and will he take prompt steps to prevent the consequent injury to health, ruin of furniture and damage to food caused by bad drainage and poor workmanship.
§ The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Westwood)Immediately my right hon. Friend's attention was drawn to the conditions existing in these emergency houses, he arranged for experiments to be carried out to find a remedy for the defects complained of. The final results will be known in a few days, and it is confidently hoped that it will then be possible to have the houses put right. My hon. Friend can rest assured that every possible step will be taken to that end.
§ Mr. KirkwoodMay we take it, then, that we shall be quite in order in telling these folk that they need not pay any rent until their houses are made, according to law, wind and water tight?
§ Mr. WestwoodThat is an entirely different question.
§ Mr. KirkwoodIt is a most natural question, arising out of the original reply.
§ Sir Herbert HoldsworthIs the statement in the Question an example of the efficiency of public enterprise?