HC Deb 01 November 1945 vol 415 cc600-1
26. Captain Marples

asked the Minister of Health if he will consider applications to erect houses, which may cost slightly more than the prescribed limit, where roads and sewers are already in existence.

Mr. Bevan

I am not prepared to consider any variation of the limit which has been so recently imposed.

Captain Marples

Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that there are approximately 30,000 acres of land in this country where sites have already been passed and roads and sewers laid before 1939, and would he consider some steps whereby this national asset can be properly used?

Mr. Bevan

If they could be used for the building of houses to let I should be prepared to consider the erection of houses upon them.

Mr. Bossom

Will the right hon. Gentleman say whether the total cost includes the cost of the land, which I asked for in Question 5 and which the right hon. Gentleman did not answer?

Mr. Bevan

I do not see how that question arises in connection with this question.

Mr. Bossom

It was in Question No. 5, in connection with houses.

Mr. Bevan

It is not a question of cost but of price.