HC Deb 12 July 1960 vol 626 c96W
78. Mr. Boyden

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will seek to obtain information from selected local authorities in the Home Counties, the Midlands, and the North, as to the price per acre they have paid for comparable council house sites in 1947, 1951, 1955, and 1959.

Mr. H. Brooke

No. No two sites are precisely comparable; and I do not think that a laborious inquiry into the past such as the hon. Member suggests would produce any worth-while results for the future, with which I am mainly concerned.

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