Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Housing – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 August 1947.
Mr Aneurin Bevan
, Ebbw Vale
12:00,
7 August 1947
The difficulty in this area is that the labour is subject to attraction into the Metropolitan area and that it is extremely difficult to keep men on the site. That is a difficulty common to all local authorities on the periphery of the Metropolitan area. We shall do our very best in future to see that where houses, especially rural houses, are involved, we keep men on the sites.