§ Sir B. PETOasked the Minister of Health the total number of new houses which have been built the rents of which are uncontrolled; the number of old houses the rents of which have been decontrolled; and the number of houses with rents still controlled under the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest. (Restriction) Acts?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe Rent Acts do not apply to new houses erected after or in course of erection on the 2nd April, 1919, or to houses which have been since that date or were at that date beingbona fide reconstructed by way of conversion into two or more separate and self-contained flats or tenements. The number of new houses erected to which the Acts do not apply is approximately 1,050,000, but I have no particulars of the numbers of houses which have been converted. Statistics are not available of the numbers of houses which have been decontrolled and the numbers which are still controlled.