Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Works – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 November 1947.
I would like instances of where that is the case. I would also point out that in the general allocating of labour for building purposes we are working on the basis of 60 per cent. of the available labour being used for housing purposes. Allocations for purposes other than housing have to be met out of the remaining 40 per cent.