§ 3. Mr. W. Wellsasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government the exceptional circumstances in which he will accept financial responsibility for defects inherent in the design of types of nontraditional houses whose construction his Department has authorised.
§ Mr. PowellSuch exceptional circumstances would arise only in the early stages of the introduction of a new type of non-traditional house. Otherwise local housing authorities are held to be fully responsible for the maintenance of their non-traditional no less than of their traditional houses.