§ Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLEasked the Minister of Health if the brickyards at Peterborough and Durham are congested with millions of bricks owing to lack of transport to remove them; and if he has secured any undertaking from the Minister of Transport as to preferential treatment for their transport, as to rapid repair of trucks, and as to the further supply and effective distribution of trucks for the purpose?
§ Dr. ADDISONThe statement in the hon. and gallant Member's question is, I believe, substantially correct. I am in communication with my right hon. Friend, the Minister of Transport, in regard to the matters referred to in the question.
§ Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLEasked the Minister of Health, seeing that the high price of building materials is largely due to their scarcity, what steps is he taking to ensure that the prices are maintained at a reasonable level?
§ Dr. ADDISONThe whole question of the cost and profits made in the production of building materials is now being enquired into by a committee appointed under the Profiteering Act by my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade.