§ Mr. Chopeasked the Secretary of State for the Environment on what date the Building Research Establishment report on Reema hollow panel prefabrication reinforced concrete houses is to be published.
§ Mr. GowThe Department published yesterday six reports by the Building Research Establishment on the following types of prefabricated reinforced concrete house: Ayrshire county council (Lindsay) and Whitston166W Fairhurst; Dorran, Myton, Newland and Tarran; Parkinson framed; Reema hollow panel; Stent; and Underdown and Winget. Copies of the reports are being sent to local authorities which have reported that there are privately-owned dwellings of these types in their areas, with a request that a copy of the appropriate report be passed to each owner concerned. Copies of the reports have been placed in the Library, together with copies of a revised information paper summarising the finding of all the BRE's investigations to date of prefabricated reinforced concrete houses designed before 1960.