Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Housing – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 July 1964.
Mr Fenner Brockway
, Eton and Slough
12:00,
14 July 1964
Is not the right hon. Gentleman very well aware of the difficulties I have in mind? Does he not know that in Slough there are 40 cases of eviction from overcrowding now before the council, with no accommodation whatsoever in which the people can be placed? When does the Minister intend to face up to this crisis in the towns of the South-East which are now overcrowded and which have no possibility at all of accommodating their citizens, and where no young married couple can get a house or a flat? When does he intend to do something about it?
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