HC Deb 15 October 1952 vol 505 cc275-7

Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make fresh provision for the making of contributions out of the Exchequer and by local authorities in respect of housing accommodation provided in Scotland, to amend the provisions of the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950, in certain respects, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid, it is expedient—

  1. A. To authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of any increase in the moneys so payable under the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act of 1950") attributable to any provision of the said Act of the present Session—
    1. (1) Substituting for the annual contribution to be made by the Secretary of State 276 to a local authority under subsection (2) or subsection (7) of section eighty-four of the Act of 1950 an annual contribution for sixty years in respect of each new house provided by them and completed after the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, of the following amount, that is to say, thirty-nine pounds fifteen shillings for a house of three apartments or less, forty-two pounds five shillings for a house of four apartments, and forty-six pounds fifteen shillings for a house of five or more apartments, and for each part of a hostel deemed to be a new house, twenty pounds, or, if the Secretary of State so determines in the case of any house so completed which a local authority have provided for the agricultural population as defined in the Act of 1950, of the following amount, that is to say, fifty-one pounds fifteen shillings for a house of three apartments or less, fifty-four pounds five shillings for a house of four apartments, and fifty-eight pounds fifteen shillings for a house of five or more apartments;
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    2. (2) Amending the law relating to improvement grants under section one hundred and eleven of the Act of 1950;
    3. (3) Enabling a tenant of an agricultural holding, a landholder or a statutory small tenant to receive an improvement grant under the Act of 1950 in respect of the execution of improvement works on any dwelling on his holding in respect of which he would at his outgo be entitled to compensation as for an improvement:
  2. B. To authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of—
    1. (1) Any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in making to a local authority, towards the expense incurred by them in giving assistance, in accordance with a scheme approved by him, for the provision of housing accommodation in new houses for the agricultural population as defined in the Act of 1950 (such assistance being given by way of payment of a lump sum not exceeding either one-half of the cost of the house or two hundred and forty pounds for a house of three apartments or three hundred pounds for a house of more than three apartments), an annual contribution for forty years of an amount equal, where the assistance is given in respect of a house in the Highlands and Islands as defined in the Act of 1950, to seven-eighths, and in any other case to three-quarters, of the annual loan charges referable to the amount paid by way of assistance;
    2. (2) Any increase in the sums payable under Part II of the Local Government Act, 1948, out of moneys so provided which is attributable to the provisions of the said Act of the present Session:
  3. C. To authorise the payment into the Exchequer of all sums received by the Secretary of State by virtue of the provisions of the said Act of the present Session.