§ Mr. PENNEFATHERasked the Minister of Health what progress has been, and is being, made in Liverpool in connection with housing?
§ Dr. ADDISONThe Corporation of Liverpool have scheduled 1,220 acres of land for housing schemes. Contracts have been let for 6,160 houses. 160 houses have been completed and occupied, and operations have been commenced on another 1,430 houses. About 3,000 men are engaged on this work; there is sufficient land and materials available to employ double this number of men, but at the moment the Corporation are held back by shortage of bricklayers and plasterers.1572W The Corporation have also converted 380 military huts at Knotty Ash Camp into temporary dwelling houses, all of which are tenanted. An additional 100 huts will be completed in a month's time