§ Mr. THURTLEasked the Minister of Health if any statistics are available as to the number of rooms in the London County Council area which are occupied by four or more persons?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe number of rooms in the administrative County of London occupied by private families living at an average density of four or more persons per room was 18,847 at the Census of 1921. No figures are available for any later date.
§ Mr. THURTLEasked the Minister of Health if he will convene a meeting of representatives of the London County 715W Council and the London Borough Councils to confer with him on the subject of measures to be taken to deal more expeditiously with the overcrowding existing in the London area?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI do not think that a conference such as the hon. Member suggests would serve a useful purpose at the present time. The remedy for overcrowding is the building of more houses. Apart from the provisions by private enterprise and by the borough councils the London County Council have adopted a very large programme of house building which they are endeavouring to carry out as fast as the resources of the industry permit.