§ Mr. RHYS DAVIESasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, as representing the Ministry of Health, whether, seeing that he has recently informed the Harwich Urban District Council that he is unable to authorise the erection of more houses under a State-assisted scheme, in view of the necessity for housing accommodation in that area, and of the state of suspense in which local authorities find themselves, he will announce the policy of the Government towards this problem?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given on Thursday last to the question asked by the hon. Member for Middlesbrough West (Mr. T. Thomson).
— England. Wales. Inhabited. Uninhabited. Inhabited. Uninhabited. 1901 … … … … 5,958,637 427,563 302,215 21,369 1911 … … … … 6,801,424 389,736 340,357 18,916 The figures for 1921 are not yet available.