§ Dame Irene Wardasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs whether he will devise a special housing programme for elderly people of limited means who could pay an economic rent without coming under local authority or benevolent society or National Assistance control, planned so as to provide supervision essential to those who are not able to live alone without some care and attention.
§ Mr. CorfieldI would refer my hon. Friend to the White Paper on Housing (Cmnd. 2050), published in May, which contains proposals for both an increase in subsidised housing for the elderly and the provision of housing at cost rents by housing societies. I have every reason to suppose that the schemes brought forward by housing societies will include some suitable for people of the kind my hon. Friend has mentioned; and this is something that my right hon. Friend welcomes.