HC Deb 14 July 1938 vol 338 cc1543-4W
Mr. Simmonds

asked the Minister of Health what steps he proposes to take to assist small shopkeepers who are evicted from condemned premises without the offer of alternative accommodation at a comparable rental?

Mr. Elliot

Local authorities have power to pay allowances towards loss due to disturbance of trade arising from slum clearance operations. Complete information as to the number and amount of allowances paid is not available, but up to the 31st March, 1938, 5,818 claims had been received by urban authorities in England and Wales, £216,826 had been paid in respect of 4,560 of these claims, and 298 claims were under consideration at that date.