Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Housing – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 July 1963.
Mr Frank Allaun
, Salford East
12:00,
4 July 1963
Surely the totals that the Minister has in mind are quite inadequate to meet the long waiting lists of those who cannot afford to buy houses. Surely, when we could build 190,000 houses way back in 1948, we can do better today, and not far worse?
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