§ Mr. John MacLeodasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many houses have been built by the local authorities for agricultural workers since 1945; and how many of these are now occupied by full-time agricultural workers, with particular reference to Ross and Cromarty.
§ Mr. J. StuartUnder the special programme designed to assist in the manning up of the agricultural industry which began in 1947, 2,373 houses have been built by local authorities, 20 of them in Ross and Cromarty.
321WI have no information to show whether all of these houses are now occupied by agricultural workers, but returns received from local authorities in September showed that since January, 1945, taking their operations as a whole, 4,153 permanent houses and 526 temporary houses had been let to agricultural workers, 22 of them in Ross and Cromarty.