TABLE Floor area of room Number of persons 110 sq.ft. or more 2 90 sq.ft. or more but less than 110 sq.ft. 1.5 70 sq.ft. or more but less than 90 sq.ft. 1 50 sq.ft. or more but less than 70 sq.ft. 0.5 Floor area of room Number of persons 110 sq.ft. or more 2 90 sq.ft. or more but less than 110 sq.ft. 1.5 70 sq.ft. or more but less than 90 sq.ft. 1 50 sq.ft. or more but less than 70 sq.ft. 0.5
Housing Bill
11:15 am
Mr John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman is making a good and persuasive argument, but it would be helped by a consideration of the action that might be necessary to alleviate the immediate risk to health. The Minister suggested the example of a staircase that was in danger of collapsing, or a wall that might fall. It is likely that an appropriate course of action for the agency would be to demolish that wall, or at least to take serious structural action in respect of it, or to block off the staircase. Those are the kind of actions that would protect health, and would certainly have to be done quickly if that risk to health and well-being was to be averted.