Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons on 7 May 1940.
Mr John Colville
, Midlothian and Peeblesshire Northern
Apart from houses built by private enterprise for which no figures are yet available this year, the number of houses completed between 1st January and 31st March, 1940, was 2,572 as compared with 4,529 in the same quarter last year. The number of houses at various stages of construction was 22,065 as compared with 27,509 at 31st March, 1939.
