HC Deb 03 December 1945 vol 416 cc1919-20

Resolution reported: That for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make financial provision for the purpose of facilitating the production equipment, repair, alteration and acquisition of houses and other buildings, and to make provision for limiting the price for which certain houses may be sold and the rent at which certain houses may be let, it is expedient—

  1. (1) to authorise the Treasury to advance money out of the Consolidated Fund for the purpose of defraying expenses of the Minister of Works in performing functions in connection with—
    1. (a)the purchase, production and distribution of building materials and equipment for buildings;
    2. (b)the carrying out of work undertaken for the purpose of providing housing accommodation;
    including expenses incidental to the per-performance of those functions and charges—
    1. (i) in respect of premises, supplies or services used in connection with the performance thereof; and
    2. (ii) in respect of expenses which fall or may ultimately fall to be borne in providing superannuation benefits in respect of persons who have been employed in connection with the performance thereof;
    so, however, that the total amount outstanding in respect of the principal of such advances shall not at any time exceed one hundred million pounds;
  2. (2) to authorise the Treasury, for the purpose of providing money to be so advanced as aforesaid, to raise money in any manner in which they are authorised to raise money under the National Loans Act, 1939, and for that purpose to create and issue securities which shall for all purposes be deemed to have been created and issued under that Act;
  3. (3) to authorise the payment, out of moneys provided by Parliament, of any sums payable by the Minister of Health or the Secretary of State, in pursuance of the pro visions of the said Act, into a Fund to be established under those provisions;
  4. (4) to authorise the payment into the Exchequer of all sums paid by the Minister of Works to the Treasury in respect of advances under the said Act and of any amount standing to the credit of the said Fund when it is closed;
  5. (5) to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of sums paid into the Exchequer as mentioned in the last preceding paragraph and the application of sums so issued, in so far as they represent interest, in payment of interest which would other wise be payable out of the permanent annual charge for the National Debt, and, in 1920 so far as they do not represent interest, in redemption or repayment of debt;
  6. (6) to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of any sums pay able by the Minister of Works in respect of advances under the said Act after the said and has been closed;
  7. (7) to authorise the increase by fifty mil lion pounds of the limit upon the sums which the Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund for the purpose of de fraying expenses incurred by the Minister of Works for the purposes of the Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act, 1944; and
  8. (8) to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of any sums required to be so paid in consequence of in creasing the limit upon the estimated value of houses or flats in respect of which guarantees may be given under section ninety one of the Housing Act, 1936, or under section seventy-five of the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1925, as amended by section sixty-seven of the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1935."

Resolution agreed to.