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Small Dwellings Acquisition Act.

Oral Answers to Questions — Housing. – in the House of Commons at on 14 November 1934.

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Photo of Sir Percy Hurd Sir Percy Hurd , Devizes

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asked the Minister of Health the total amount sanctioned by him for repayment to the Public Works Loan Commissioners in respect of small dwellings advances in each of the last three years?

Sir H. YOUNG:

The amounts repaid to the Public Works Loan Commissioners with my sanction under Section 9 (8) of the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899, were:

……£
1931–2……565,012
1932–3……1,097,345
1933–4……2,043,572

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