Oral Answers to Questions — Housing – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 11 Awst 1947.
Mr Norman Dodds
, Dartford
12:00,
11 Awst 1947
asked the Minister of Health the total standards of timber imported and produced in this country over the most recent convenient period; and what proportion was allocated to the housing programme.
Mr John Edwards
, Blackburn
In the three months April to June, 1947, supplies of imported and home-produced softwood for all essential purposes totalled 197,275 standards. Of this some 84,000 standards were allotted to housing work.
Mr Edward Fleming
, Manchester, Withington
Could the hon. Gentleman tell us how much of that timber was imported from Russia?
Mr John Edwards
, Blackburn
Not without notice.
