§ Mr. Frankelasked the Minister of Works to what extent the cost of the various types of temporary houses approved by the Government have been revised; whether he will now state the estimated total cost of each type as erected on the site and the various items which go to make this total; and whether these estimates are based upon an assumption that there will be a supply of material as a free issue or at less than the market price.
§ Mr. SandysThe figure of £600 has at different times been referred to as a target price for the pressed steel bungalow. We have still insufficient experience of the process of production and erection of temporary houses upon which to base any reliable estimates. It is, however, clear that the cost of all types of temporary houses will, in practice, work out very considerably higher than the original target figure, more particularly in the case of those erected under present wartime conditions in advance of the original programme, which had not been planned to start until after the end of hostilities in Europe.