§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to a statement made at the recent annual housing and town-planning conference of local authorities in the West, by the secretary of the National Housing and Town-Planning Council, that the reduction of the subsidy had diminished the number of houses under construction under the Housing Acts of 1923 and 1924, and that there was a tendency to reduce the standard of working-class dwellings; and what he is doing to (heck this downward tendency?
§ Sir K. WOODMy right hon. Friend has no responsibility for the statements to which the hon. Member refers, but I may refer him to the statement which my right hon. Friend made on the discussion of the Ministry of Health Esti- 827W mates which disposes of the points to which he refers.