§ Mr. Staintonasked the Minister of Public Building and Works whether he is satisfied that present local authority building byelaws achieve the aims of ensuring public health and safety, and establishing sound structural standards, respectively; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. BoydenThe present building byelaws go a long way to ensure public health and safety and sound structural standards in buildings. The new building regulations will make further progress to this end.
§ Mr. Staintonasked the Minister of Public Building and Works whether he will circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT details of the number of inspectors employed by each relevant local authority in England to supervise the application of building byelaws, together with the ratio of these numbers in the most recent convenient year to the value of capital projects completed separately as regards houses for owner occupation, council houses and other projects.
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§ Mr. BoydenInformation about the numbers of inspectors employed by local authorities to supervise the application of building byelaws is not available centrally. The value of capital projects completed could not be broken down by local authority areas and by the categories mentioned in the Question without a disproportionate expenditure of staff and computer time.