HC Deb 28 March 1944 vol 398 cc1255-6W
Lieut.-Colonel H. Guest

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider the issue of a Treasury direction under Section 20 of the War Damage Act, 1943, extending to damaged or destroyed business premises the same cost of works conditions of compensation as is accorded to residential houses under that direction; and whether he will consider the extension of a cost of works system of compensation to business premises which, owing to new conditions of town planning, cannot be erected on the same sites as those on which the damage actually occurred.

Sir J. Anderson

As regards the first part of the Question, I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the answer which I gave on 4th November last to the hon. and gallant Member for Hornsey (Captain Gammans). As regards the second part, the War Damage Act, 1943, empowers the Commission to make a cost of works payment only where the hereditament which sustained war damage is reinstated.