§ Mrs. Ewingasked the Secretary of State for Scotland when the Government's present building target will solve the present-day housing slum problem outlined in the Cullingworth Report; and in how many years the slums mentioned in that report will be abolished.
§ Mr. RossIn the last twelve months for which statistics are available, to 30th September, 1967, some 17,500 houses were demolished or closed—a record rate of slum clearance. The house-building programme running at its highest ever rate of completions must fulfil other needs besides replacement, and the proportion given to each sort of need changes from time to time. I will shortly be making a statement on the Cullingworth Report which I commissioned.