§ Mr. LYLEasked the Minister of Health the number of houses erected with the assistance of the State subsidy now being let at an economic rent; whether the Ministry is encouraging the sale of subsidised houses; and how many up to the present have been sold?
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§ Sir A. MONDI am afraid that no houses built by local authorities under assisted schemes have been let at a rent which would cover all charges on the capital cost. The sale of houses erected by local authorities has been consistently encouraged by my predecessor and myself. Schemes for purchase by tenants by easy instalments have been approved for that purpose. Fifty-two local authorities have applied for permission to sell houses, but I have no information at the present moment of the number of houses actually sold by them.