§ 91. Sir W. Smithersasked the President of the Board of Trade why, in view of the 41W housing crisis in Britain, 500 prefabricated houses are to be shipped abroad from the port of Immingham on 14th November.
§ 96. Mr. Llewellynasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the first consignment of 500 prefabricated houses is due to pass through the port of Immingham on 14th November for Australia; how many prefabricated houses have been exported, and to what countries, for each of the years 1945–49, inclusive, and for the first 10 months of 1950; and how many are due to be exported under existing contracts.
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EXPORTS OF PREFABRICATED BUILDINGS — 1945–1949 January-September, 1950 Number £ Channel Islands … see footnote 3 2,572 Gibraltar … 1 700 Gold Coast … 3 4,620 Nigeria … 1 1,754 South Africa … 7 608 Southern Rhodesia … 88 38,787 Tanganyika … 52 63,227 Kenya … 41 7,967 Nyasaland … 6 1,084 Bahrein, Koweit, Qatar and Trucial Oman … 8 17,544 India … 7 6,215 Pakistan … 5 6,286 Australia … 1,564 1,589,080 New Zealand … 5 1,404 Canada … 1 1,272 Jamaica and Dependencies … 22 6,909 Windward Islands … 2 3,203 Trinidad and Tobago … 1 762 British Honduras … 2 250 British Guiana … 9 1,125 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan … 26 27,387 Irish Republic … 1 1,490 Switzerland … 1 500 Belgian Congo … 11 4,695 French West and Equatorial Africa … 6 6,892 French Indo-China … 1 1,479 Lebanon … 65 34,696 Israel … 5 5,439 Morocco … 2 1,514 Iraq … 9 17,886 Iran … 3 6,000 United States of America … 1 1,175 Colombia … 1 1,223 Venezuela … 1 156 Uruguay … 1 1,070 TOTAL … 1,962 1,866,971 Note.—For the years 1945–1949 inclusive prefabricated buildings were not separately distinguished in Customs and Excise Export List. Details are not yet available for the first 10 months of 1950.
§ Mr. BottomleyThe decision to facilitate these exports was taken in full consultation with the Departments concerned. They form part of a valuable export trade which helps to pay for supplies of, for example, meat and wool. They will help the Government of Australia to house immigrants, and they are in line with the United Kingdom Government's policy of encouraging emigration to the under-populated parts of the Commonwealth. I am circulating in the OFFICIAL REPORT the available figures for the export of prefabricated buildings. I regret that figures for the numbers under contract are not available.
Following are the figures: