§ 142. Mr. H. Hyndasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will give an assurance that, in the new drive to sell houses to people on local authority waiting lists, the names and addresses of those people will not be supplied to private firms of estate agents.
§ Mr. H. MacmillanI am prepared to rely on the good sense of the local authorities.
§ 145. Mr. Jannerasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what advice he is giving to local authorities to ensure that the people who can afford to put down a deposit and take out a mortgage on a house do not get priority over those who can only afford to rent one and who may have been waiting for many years for housing accommodation.
— West Hartlepool County Borough Hartlepool Borough 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 Houses allocated * 250 295 230 400 160‡ 160 160 182 120 100 100‡ Permanent Houses completed By Local Authority 138 340 217 223 143† — 125 118 153 125 134† — By housing association and private enterprise 88 88 52 41 21 — 1 — — — — — Total completed 226 428 269 264 164 — 126 118 153 125 134 — * Not available: tenders approved for 266 houses. † To 30th September. ‡ Provisional.