§ Mr. ALBERYasked the Minister of Health the number of houses built in Gravesend and Northfleet since December, 1924, under the 1923 Act and also under the 1924 Act; and the number of houses condemned but occupied in December, 1924, and also in December, 1926, in the same localities?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINUp to the 1st instant, 309 houses had been completed in Gravesend with State assistance under the Housing Act of 1923, and none under the Act of 1924. The corresponding figures in the case of Northfleet are 105 and 16. The information asked for in the last part of the question is not available, but according, to the Reports of the Medical Officers of Health for the year 1924, five houses were reported as unfit for human habitation in Gravesend and 22 in Northfleet.