Mr. T. THOMSON:

asked the Minister of Health the total number of workmen's dwellings built since the Armistice both with and without State assistance?

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN:

From the, Armistice to the 1st July last, 307,689 houses had been completed in connection with State-assisted schemes under the Housing Acts. Complete statistics are not available as to the number of houses built by private enterprise without assistance by way of subsidy, but during the 2½ years to 31st March last for which figures are available it is estimated that the number of houses so built was 160,566. Of these, 117,587 had a rateable value not exceeding £26 in the provinces and £35 in London. It may, therefore, be taken that not less than 425,000 houses of this type have been provided in the period referred to.