§ 53. Mr. Hamlingasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will now make a statement on his study of various systems of industrialised housing.
§ Mr. MacCollApproximately 40 per cent. of local authority houses and flats are being built by industrialised methods. In high rise building the systems in use are efficient and often cheaper than traditional. There are, at present, too many low rise systems and this dispersion of effort reduces the advantages of industrialisation for this form of housing. The operation of our recently published cost limits and normal competition should ensure that a limited number of the more efficient systems will capture most of the market and receive the benefits of large programmes.