HC Deb 29 June 1943 vol 390 cc1474-5W
Mr. Thorne

asked the Minister of Health whether any cottages are being built in rural areas for the old age pension widows and widowers who have no children?

Miss Horsbrugh

The cottages now being built under the emergency agricultural scheme are intended for the agricultural workers needed in the interests of increased food production and are therefore all of the family type. About 4,00o small cottages specially intended for old people had been built by rural district councils before the war and many more will, I hope, be built when a resumption of house-building becomes possible.