§ Mr. Higgsasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works whether, taking the ordinary one-storied house now being approved in certain cases by his Department, he can state the cost of constructing such a house in brick, a material which exists in large quantities in different parts of the country.
§ 5. Mr. HicksIf, as I assume, the hon. Member refers to the pressed steel bungalow and the other temporary bungalows, I would remind him that the object is to provide additional houses with the minimum use of traditional site building labour. It is, however, estimated that the extra cost of a bungalow of similar design to the pressed steel bungalow, if the external walls were of 11 inch brick, with cavity, the internal partitions of suitable brick or breeze, and the roof tiled, with the necessary adjustment of the slope, would be £70 to £7