§ Colonel DAYasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, how many sites of temporary housing schemes were purchased, and where same are situated; whether all or any of the sites are available for building schemes for local authorities and whether the Works Department are building dwelling houses to help to meet the 1333W present national demand for more accommodation?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONThe number of sites purchased is 19, viz.: 11 in the Woolwich area; four situated respectively at Barrow-in-Furness, Birtley, Coventry, Scotswood (near Newcastle); three at Sheffield; and one at Alexandria in Scotland. The sites at present are fully occupied with temporary houses which it is anticipated cannot be dispensed with for some time to come. As regards the last part of the question, the answer is in the negative.