§ Mr. Longdenasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government how many requests for supplementary loan sanctions were received from local authorities in the past year; and how many of these were attributable to extra spending by direct labour departments.
§ Mr. SkeffingtonNo separate record is kept of requests for supplementary loan sanctions, whether for direct labour schemes or not, and the information could not be extracted without undue expenditure of time and effort, both in this Department and in a number of others.