Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Housing (Scotland) – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 25 March 1947.
Major Henry Spence
, Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Central
12:00,
25 March 1947
Is the Minister aware that his answer shows that the allocation of houses is being made on a point of expediency, to show the maximum number of completed houses in the shortest space of time, disregarding local needs; and is he aware that this is causing very great resentment? With regard to the second part of the answer, was all the timber for these houses ever ordered; if it was ordered, which country let us down; and if it was not ordered, who was the guilty man?
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