Former MP for Leicester West
I do not intend—it would be foolish for me to try—to cover as much ground as the last speaker, who has taken the whole subject of health as his field. I wish to confine my remarks to the problem of housing, and especially the housing of the poorer-paid working classes. Like the last speaker, I desire to express my appreciation of the work that is being done by the Ministry of Health; it...
Will the houses which are to be provided for poorly-paid workers merely replace the slums which have been cleared away, or will they be additional houses?
I am not rising in order to condemn the Minister for what he has done in regard to the housing problem, nor to praise him, but to add a little friendly criticism. I feel in a somewhat embarrassing position in criticising him for not gingering up local authorities more in regard to their housing schemes, because the Minister said to-day that he has not received a scheme from the city which I...
I do not know exactly what my position is in this Debate. There is a good deal that I should like to say, and I do not see how I can say it. I am anxious to see the Minister ginger-up local authorities in the matter of slum clearance, and I would emphasise the point that you cannot separate, as they have been separated to some extent, the problems of re-housing and slum clearance. The law...
Where does the hon. and gallant Gentleman get his figures from if he says that represents the Japanese wage?
I do.
In listening to most debates in this House I must confess that I have sometimes been very much moved by the arguments of the other side, but in this Debate, though I have listened, I think, to every speech but one in opposition to this Bill, I have not received a single gleam of light. The opposition seems to me to be—I do not like to use the word—entirely factious, and merely diehard,...
Are the Government not prepared to make use of this Bill?
