Oral Answers to Questions — Housing – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 November 1947.
Mr Francis Noel-Baker
, Brentford and Chiswick
12:00,
27 November 1947
asked the Minister of Health when he proposes to implement the recommendations of the Silkin Report on the conversion of existing houses published in 1945, in view of the recent reduction in the programme for the building of new houses.
Mr Aneurin Bevan
, Ebbw Vale
I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave to the Question from the hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr. Digby) on 31st July last, of which I?m sending him a copy.
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