Mr. Rostron Duckworthasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works and Buildings whether his Department is open to receive schemes for replanning in the poorer districts of the big cities attacked by air raids, or whether all such schemes must wait till after the war even for consideration?
§ Mr. HicksIt will not usually be practicable to come to final decisions on reconstruction plans until the full extent of war damage in the particular town is known at the end of hostilities, but my Noble Friend will be glad, in consultation with the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland, to consider provisional proposals submitted to him by local authorities and to advise upon them.