§ 70. Sir W. Smithersasked the Minister of Health, in view of the fact that there is no hold up in housing work for the lack of bricks, cement, timber and steel, why timber is restricted to 1.6 standards per house, why there is nine months' delay in delivery of steel rods, why local authorities have recently been asked to use substitutes for lead and why permission has been refused to construct concrete roads, with the result that they are being made of hard core and macadam at extra cost.
§ Mr. BevanThe use of certain materials is limited precisely in order that housing work should not be held up.