Lieut.-Colonel H. Guestasked the Minister of Works if he will, each month, lay a Paper on the Table of the House showing the number of temporary houses and permanent houses which have been erected and become occupied during that month so that Members may have an opportunity of judging the rate of progress in new construction in relief of the housing shortage throughout the country.
§ Mr. SandysThe Government intend to publish full information about the current progress of house-building and of certain other classes of building work. For this purpose it will be necessary to ask for regular returns from local authorities, and I am consulting my right hon. Friends the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland on this matter.