§ Mr. CLOUGHasked the President of the Local Government Board, with regard to the Skipton Parliamentary Division, whether the local authority have fulfilled the duty imposed upon them by the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, and have made an inspection of the dwelling-houses in every urban and rural district since 1st July 1910; whether he will give the records where it has been ascertained that any dwelling-house is in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation; that the floor of any room habitually used as a sleeping place is more than three feet below the surface of the adjoining street; and of any Order that has been made since 1st July, 1910, to prohibit the use of a dwelling-house; whether, under the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, he has received any complaint from the county council or from any parish council, or parish meeting, or from any four inhabitant householders, that the local authority have failed hitherto to exercise their powers to enforce the execution of the Housing Acts; and whether he will give particulars of the representations, complaints, and information forwarded by the clerks of the rural district councils since 1st July, 1910, under the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, to the medical officer of health?
§ Mr. BURNSThe reports of the medical officers of health for the districts in the Parliamentary Division of Skipton show that substantial progress has been made with the inspection of dwelling-houses under the Housing, Town-Planning, etc., Act, 1909, in some of the districts, and some progress in all. I may say generally that I am not in a position to reply definitely to several of the inquiries in my hon. Friend's question, but, looking to the information before me, I think there will probably be some advantage in having an inspection by one of my inspectors, and I propose to take that course.