Viscountess Astorasked the Minister of Health how many persons in the United Kingdom are living in dwellings which have been condemned as insanitary; how many in basement or underground dwellings; and what proportion of these are children under 15 years?
§ Sir K. WoodI regret that I am not in possession of the information asked for but I estimate that in England and Wales approximately 1,000,000 persons remain to be rehoused from houses included in the slum clearance programmes of local authorities.