§ 69. Mr. Piratinasked the Minister of Health how many homes he estimates are yet needed to provide every family with separate living accommodation, bearing in mind that separate accommodation implies no sharing of kitchen, bathroom or sanitary facilities.
§ Mr. PiratinWill the Minister give an indication when he will furnish the House with this information—no doubt arising from the reports he gets from the local authorities—and will he say how it was possible for him to say recently in this House that he is confident that within a very short time every family will have separate accommodation, if he is not in a position to give the figures required?
§ Mr. BevanThe answer is that my estimate of last week was based upon the fact that the number of separate houses in Great Britain is higher than it was before the war in relation to the population. If that be the case, in the country as a whole, but not in every single part of the country at the same time, we ought to be within accessible distance of the goal.