§ 117. Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs, in view of the widespread anxiety that more should be done as soon as possible to improve the present housing situation, now causing distress to several million families, if he will state the action he proposes to take to co-ordinate the activities of the Ministers concerned in dealing with municipal housing, interest rates, the health dangers involved, and the acquisition of agricultural land in England and Wales and also in Scotland.
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§ Mr. H. BrookeDuring the last eight years, the housing situation in the country as a whole has been enormously improved as a result of the building since 1951 of well over 2 million new houses and the rehousing of 7 million people in good modern homes. In certain areas, there is still an urgent housing need; but the best way of overcoming shortages is to keep house-building at a high level, and that is what the Government are continuing to do. I am in close and constant consultation with all the other Ministers concerned, and the success of our co-ordinated policies is proved by the house-building figures.