§ Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Minister of Public Building and Works what information he has received, from international bodies to which Her Majesty's Government belong, of the relative proportion of the national product spent on housing in Great Britain compared with other countries in Europe.
§ Mr. RipponTheAnnual Bulletin of Housing and Building Statistics for Europe, published by the Office of the United Nations in Geneva, gives the following figures for the proportion of the gross national product spent on housing in the United Kingdom and in other European countries. (No figures are available for Great Britain only.)
Percentages 1961 Denmark … … 3.3 Finland … … 6.4 France … … 4.0 Greece … … 5.3 Iceland … … 1.7 Italy … … 5.6 Netherlands … … 4.2 Norway … … 4.1 Portugal … … 3.4 Sweden … … 5.1 Switzerland … … 7.6 United Kingdom … … 3.1 Western Germany … … 5.5 These figures of expenditure expressed as a percentage of the gross national product do not give a comparison of the amount of housing provided.