§ 117. Mr. P. Robertsasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether, when he is considering the break-up of the allocation of £2,500,000 to be made for war damage reconstruction in the year 1953, he will bear in mind the needs of Sheffield and the facts that Sheffield received no grants last year. except a blitz allocation, and that other towns received as much as £459,000 last year; and whether he will therefore increase the allocation to Sheffield to £580,000.
§ Mr. H. MacmillanI have already distributed the whole of the £4,500,000 available for blitz reconstruction in 1953 in172W accordance with the principles set out in the reply to the hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Mr. Astor), on 18th November last. I cannot, therefore, increase the figure authorised to any city. In making my distribution I took into account, as best I could, the needs of all the cities concerned and the present position of their reconstruction programmer.
On the figure authorised to them, Sheffield will be able to spend more on new work next year than most of the other blitzed cities.