Private House Building (1965 and 1966)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Housing – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 November 1965.

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Photo of Mr Reginald Freeson Mr Reginald Freeson , Willesden East 12:00, 16 November 1965

Is not it the plain fact that in their period of office the last Government said that they were going to put first priority on slum clearance but that they cut public housing by 50 per cent.? Is not it a fact that the only way to give a clear priority to the clearing of the rotten parts of cities is by stepping up massively public sector housing in this way?