§ 110. Sir J. Langford-Holtasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how many new dwellings were completed by private enterprise in Shrewsbury in 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968, and what is the estimated figure in 1969; and what effect he estimates the Government's financial policy will have on this figure in future.
§ Mr. Freeson4110 private houses were completed in Shrewsbury in 1965 and 443, 440 and 253 in 1966, 1967 and 1968 respectively. Up to the end of June, 1969, the last month for which figures are available, 138 houses had been completed and a further 133 were under construction.
I hope that the recent increases in local authority lending, the improvements to the option mortgage scheme, and the contractual savings scheme with tax concessions for the building societies will all have a favourable effect on housebuilding in Shrewsbury—as elsewhere.