§ 17. Mr. Edward Daviesasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how far the cost of building new houses and doing maintenance work has increased during the past year; and what are the reasons.
§ Mr. H. MacmillanThe latest available information will be included in the Third Report of the Girdwood Committee, which will be published shortly.
§ Mr. DaviesIn the meantime, can the Minister give us any information in view of the figures which were increased the other day when providing for extra maintenance costs? Evidently his Department has some information as to the present tendency.
§ Mr. MacmillanWhen an expert committee is just about to make a report it is wiser for a Minister to wait for those details than to make estimates of his own.