Clause 2. — (Amendment of Section 1 of 9 and 10 Geo. 5, c. 99.)

Part of Orders of the Day — Ministry of Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill – in the House of Commons at on 8 December 1920.

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Photo of Mr Stanley Holmes Mr Stanley Holmes , Derbyshire North Eastern

I beg to move to leave out the Clause.

9.0 P.M.

I want to say straight away that I am not taking into account in any way the merits of the Clause. I am asking the House to reject this on purely financial grounds. This Clause is asking us to continue the housing subsidy for another year. The housing subsidy as given in the present year by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is now something between £15,000,000 and £16,000,000. What it will be in the full year 1921–2 under this Clause, I do not know, but I assume that, as £15,000,000 does not represent a full year the subsidy will be more than that.