§ Lieut.-Colonel WINDSOR-CLIVEasked the Minister of Health how many schemes under the Housing (Rural Workers) Act, 1926, have been submitted to him by local authotities in Shropshire; and how many have been sanctioned?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINNo schemes under the Housing (Rural Workers) Act, 1926, have been submitted to me by local authorities in Shropshire. Fourteen councils of county districts, however, have made application under Section 5 (1) of the Act to be constituted authorities for the purposes of the Act to the exclusion of the county council. I understand that the question of the formulation of a scheme is under the consideration of the county council, and in the meantime I have not given a decision upon these applications.