Oral Answers to Questions — Housing.

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  • Colliers' Cottages, Glamorgan. (9 speeches)

    52. asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the action of the Powell Duffryn Coal Company in commencing housing developments on a large scale near Llantrisant,...

  • Slum Clearances. (6 speeches)

    53. asked the Minister of Health on what grounds he bases his estimate of £230,000 as the money required to assist local authorities in slum clearance in any one year; and whether, if local...

  • Building Bye-Laws. (2 speeches)

    54. asked the Minister of Health how many of the local authorities in South Wales and Monmouthshire have complied with the request made by his Department last year to amend their building...

  • Town Planning, Porthcawl. (2 speeches)

    55. asked the Minister of Health if he will exercise his powers under the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Acts to urge the Porthcawl Urban Council to take immediate steps to safeguard its future...

  • Somers Town Area. (2 speeches)

    56. asked the Minister of Health whether he has refused to see a deputation from the St. Pancras Borough Council relative to the improvement of the Somers Town area; and why he has refused any...

  • Building Materials (Prices). (2 speeches)

    60. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the Abercarn urban district council attribute the great shortage of houses to the high cost of building material arising from the monopoly of...

  • Flat-Rate Grant. (4 speeches)

    61. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the Abertillery Urban District Council view with grave apprehension the Government proposals for assisting housing schemes; that assistance...

  • Vacant Houses. (4 speeches)

    66. asked the Minister of Health the number of vacant houses for sale in the cities and towns in England, Scotland and Wales, and which the owners refuse to let at a weekly, monthly, or quarterly...

  • Swansea. (4 speeches)

    69. asked the Minister of Health what was the estimated need for houses shown by the regional survey in Swansea; how many houses had the local authority proposed to build; how many were approved...

  • Black Country. (2 speeches)

    72. asked the Minister of Health whether, since the housing shortage, as indicated by the regional survey of 1920, in the Black Country was 26,420 and approved schemes provided for 19,149 houses,...

  • Liverpool. (2 speeches)

    73. asked the Minister of Health if the regional survey of Lancaster revealed an estimated need of 14,000 houses in the City of Liverpool; and how many of these were to replace unfit and...

  • South Wales and Monmouth Coal Area. (2 speeches)

    74. asked the Minister of Health what was the estimated need for houses indicated by the regional survey of 1920 in the district of the South Wales and Monmouthshire coalfield; how many Louses...

  • London (Overcrowding). (4 speeches)

    75. asked the Minister of Health what proportion of the patients under the care of the London tuberculosis dispensaries live in dwellings with one or two rooms only; and whether he intends to...

  • Direct Labour, Tonbridge. (2 speeches)

    76. asked the Minister of Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Tonbridge Urban District Council has been able by direct labour to save £300 per house over private...

  • Industrial and Public Utility Schemes. (2 speeches)

    77. asked the Minister of Health how many houses have been built by industrial firms for their employés and by public utility societies, respectively, since the passing of the Housing and...

  • Hull. (4 speeches)

    78. asked the Minister of Health how many houses have been completed since the Armistice, or are now in course of completion, in Hull; and how this number compares with the needs of the city as...

  • Scarborough. (2 speeches)

    79. asked the Minister of Health how many of the 150 houses in Scarborough reported by the Yorkshire regional survey as being totally unfit are still inhabited?

  • Municipal and Private Enterprise. (9 speeches)

    80. asked the Minister of Health if he can now give statistics of working-class houses which have been built since the War by private builders without State assistance?

  • Local Authorities (Proposals). (2 speeches)

    Captain BENN: 84. asked the Minister of Health if he will name the 38 local authorities who have submitted housing proposals under the new Bill for the approval of his Department?

  • Well Hall Estate, Eltham. (2 speeches)

    100. asked the First Commissioner of Works, whether he is aware that, on the Well Hall estate, Eltham, there is a number of vacant houses; and that notices have been posted offering these houses...

  • Pathhead, Ford, Midlothian. (2 speeches)

    102. asked the Under-Secretary to the Scottish Board of Health if he is aware that there is a serious housing shortage at Pathhead, Ford, Midlothian; that many houses there are closed for a...

  • British Debt (United States). (6 speeches)

    45. asked the Prime Minister whether the War Debt settlement contract between His Majesty's Government and the Government of the United States of America has been finally ratified; and whether it...

  • Pre-War Pensioners. (5 speeches)

    46. asked the Prime Minister whether the Sub-Committee of the Cabinet which is to consider the legislation to be introduced with the object of improving the scale of pensions to pre-War...

  • Iraq (Treaty with King Feisal). (6 speeches)

    48. asked the Prime Minister when Parliament will be invited to ratify the Treaty between His Majesty and the King of Iraq?

  • Cakes (Boric Acid). (6 speeches)

    57. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the only prosecution for the presence of boric acid in cakes was due to the use of eggs that were at first frozen and then defrozen and...

  • Rates. (4 speeches)

    Mr. T. THOMSON: 62. asked the Minister of Health what is the average rate in the £ for all local purposes levied in England and Wales in urban and in rural areas?