§ Mr. Joseph Deanasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will 166W consider, in order to make more adequate resources available for house building, introducing a system of building licences.
§ Mr. FreesonI do not consider that a system of building licensing would be right. Once the effect of the short-time working has been overcome, I do not expect the supply of construction resources to hold back house building, although there may be occasional difficulties.