Former MP for Shrewsbury
16. asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that, as a consequence of the shortage of housing accommodation in the town of Shrewsbury, industrial workers in the town have to cycle, in the absence of other transport facilities, 15 miles or more, morning and night daily, to share cottages in the occupation of farm workers, who suffer terrible overcrowding; and will the Ministry press on the...
17. asked the Minister of Health how many houses have been built in the rural parishes of the Shrews- bury Parliamentary division of Shropshire since the 1923 Housing Act came into force; whether the total number is below the average for similar divisions; and, if so, has the Ministry taken any steps to press the urgency of building more on the rural authorities?
What about a boom in commercial building?
My mind goes back 20 years to the time when I attended a technical school, and, with all respect to the Minister, I think he has been treating the Committee as though we were a lot of apprentices. On the Second Reading of this Bill the Minister definitely said he was not going to interfere with the building industry, but was going to leave it to masters and men to work out their own programme...
I will pass from my proposed Amendment to the Amendment for the moment. The Minister read out certain words which he proposed to insert at the end of line 42, and I thought I was in order in suggesting an Amendment of those words.
I will ask the Minister to embody these words in his Amendment. I appeal to the Committee to realise that all these Amendments dealing with the augmentation of labour and the price of materials are fruitless. What we are concerned with is to ensure that the cost of building these houses shall be kept at the price to which the House of Commons is prepared to agree, and I suggest that in the...
On a point of Order. During the Debate on the Amendment just withdrawn, I asked the Chair whether I was in order in moving an Amendment to the Minister's Amendment. Am I in order in moving it now?
No, my Amendment was an Amendment to the Minister's.
