HC Deb 22 June 1965 vol 714 c177W
Mr. Frank Allaun

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will make a statement on progress made in installing baths, inside water closets, and hot water in houses requiring them.

Mr. Mellish

By the end of April 448,000 standard improvement grants had been made, providing 187,000 dwellings with a bath or shower, 190,000 with a water closet and 292,000 with hot water. Detailed figures for each item are not available for discretionary grants, which have been approved for 446,000 dwellings, but it is a condition of grant that a dwelling must have all three when work is complete. It is not known how many of these items have been installed in dwellings without the aid of grant.