My hon. Friend will, I am sure, appreciate that the class of building by private enterprise, which formed the bulk of building activity before the war, cannot, owing to other calls on materials and to the impossibility of providing the necessary capital in war-time, continue on any considerable scale during the war. I shall, however, continue to give sympathetic consideration in the light of the demand on materials and of the financial position, to proposals, whether from private enterprise or from local authorities, for the completion of houses and the building of a certain number of new houses required for the accommodation of workers in the factory and on the land.