37. Lieut.-Commander Hutchisonasked the Secretary of State for Scotland when it is intended to publish the Report of the Scottish Housing Advisory Committee on Reconditioning.
§ Mr. BuchananThe Report of the Scottish Housing Advisory Committee on the modernisation of existing houses is at present in the hands of the printer, and will be published as soon as possible.
§ Mr. J. S. C. ReidCan the hon. Gentleman say how long this Report has been in the hands of the printers, and when he expects it to be published?
§ Mr. BuchananThe right hon. and learned Gentleman must ask the printers when they will finish their job. If I controlled the printers, I would do fairly well. It has been in their hands a fair time, and we hope that it will be published as soon as it is finished.
§ Mr. Thornton-KemsleyCan the hon. Gentleman give an assurance that there is no delay caused by the fact that the contents of the Report are not favourable to Government policy?
§ Mr. BuchananI should have been annoyed if I had not been asked that supplementary question. As soon as the Report came from the committee, my right hon. Friend and I discussed the matter, and the first decision which we 676 made, within a very short time, was to have it printed and circulated to the public.