§ Mr. GRUNDYasked the Minister of Health if the subsidy of £6 per house will be retrospective and to what date; will it apply to both public and private enterprise; and if he will take into consideration the three rooms down and three rooms upstairs house?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINIt is proposed that the subsidy should be paid to local authorities in respect of A.3 houses, and that it should be available either towards meeting losses on municipal schemes or to assist local authorities in making arrangements for house building with private enterprise. Assuming that the Housing Bill becomes law, the subsidy will be retrospective in respect of schemes of either of the above classes submitted by local authorities and approved by me. The precise date to which it will be retrospective is under consideration. I cannot undertake to extend the subsidy to larger houses.