Part of Orders of the Day — Ministry of Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. – in the House of Commons at on 8 December 1920.
Dr Christopher Addison
, Shoreditch
If I might, with the permission of the House, answer a question which was put by the hon. Member, he is really under a misapprehension. Under the existing Housing Act, all the local authorities in the country have been required to make an inspection of all their houses within the last 12 months, and to report upon them to the Ministry of Health. We have had reports on examinations of houses now from practically every authority in the Kingdom, and, therefore, what my hon. Friends ask for in this Clause has actually been done during the last 12 months.
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