22. Miss Wardasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will make a statement on his recent provisional allocation of houses to local authorities which, though designed to keep him in touch with housing progress of local authorities, makes it difficult for them to allocate 50 per cent. for private licences and maintain a similar number of houses to let as in 1951.
Mr. MacmillanI would refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Donnelly) on 29th January. Local authorities know that they can obtain permission to increase their programme at any time provided that more houses can be built with the resources available in their area.