§ Mr. Robert L. Howarthasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what effect, if any, he estimates that the recent economy measures will have on the slum clearance and council house-building programme of the county borough of Bolton in the years 1968 to 1970.
§ Mr. MacColl:As I explained in answer to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, West (Mr. Oakes) on 29th January, there are to be discussions with the main house-building authorities, in the course of the normal review of programmes, to settle what it would be practicable for them to build over the next two or three years, in the light of the priority to he given to slum clearance, to meeting shortages of rented accommodation in conurbations, and especially to those authorities with the highest concentration of these problems, of which Bolton is one.—[Vol. 757, c. 238–9.]