Coal Industry Housing Association

HC Deb 22 July 1952 vol 504 cc15-6W

66. Mr. McKay

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what are the financial arrangements between the Government, the Miners National Housing Association and the National Coal Board, when the Housing Association builds houses for miners.

Mr. Marples

The object of the Coal Industry Housing Association, to which my right hon. Friend assumes the hon. Member refers, is to build houses under arrangements made with a local authority under Section 94 of the Housing Act, 1936. Exchequer subsidy will be payable to the local authority in the same way as if the houses had been provided by the local authority, and the authority will pay an annual grant to the housing association of an amount not less than the Exchequer subsidy. The Housing Association has been set up by the National Coal Board and will be financed by them.