§ Mr. Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in tabular form in respect of each year 1948 to 1951, inclusive, and 1960 to 1963, inclusive, the number of local authority houses built, the aggregate in respect of each of these four year periods of the local authority houses built, and the aggregate of apartments provided.
§ Mr. NobleThe numbers of houses completed by local authorities were as follows:
1948 … … … 16,615 1949 … … … 20,004 1950 … … … 20,989 1951 … … … 17,971 75,579
1960 … … … 17,913 1961 … … … 16,823 1962 … … … 16,245 1963 … … … 17,699 68,680 The available annual statistics of numbers of apartments relate only to houses covered by tenders approved in 1951 and subsequent years for local authorities and other public agencies together. These were set out in my reply to the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. W. Hamilton) on 19th February last.