§ Sir F. Macleanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what provision the Government are now making in Scotland for building houses for letting at economic rents.
§ Mr. NobleThe Housing Act which has just received Royal Assent provides further substantial Exchequer funds for advances to housing societies building for letting at cost rents or co-ownership. The £3 million provided for this purpose in Scotland in the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1962, is earmarked for schemes already approved or in course of preparation.
§ Sir F. Macleanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many houses have
78Wof each class have been slaughtered annually in each of these establishments.
§ Mr. NobleThere are nine public slaughterhouses in the county of Fife operated by town councils and one private sheep slaughterhouse. The following tables show the maximum capacity which can be handled in each of these slaughterhouses and the number of animals slaughtered during the year 1963.
been built by private enterprise in Scotland since 1959; and what increase this represents over the previous five years.
§ Mr. NobleThirty-two thousand five hundred and ninety-five houses were built by private enterprise in the period 1959 to 1963. This was an increase of 13,722, or almost 42 per cent. over the number built in the five years prior to 1959.
§ Sir C. Thornton-Kemsleyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many new houses in Scotland have so far been completed this year.
§ Sir C. Thornton-Kemsleyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many old houses have been replaced in Scotland by new houses since 1959.
§ Mr. NobleAbout 74,000 houses, including 9,000 temporary houses, were taken out of use by local authority action from the beginning of 1959 to the end of March this year. In the same period public authorities provided over 112,000 new houses. Figures of houses taken out of use privately are not available, but in the same period over 34,000 new houses were provided by private enterprise.