Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 5 Rhagfyr 1973.
Mr John Fraser
, Lambeth Norwood
12:00,
5 Rhagfyr 1973
Does not the Minister feel ashamed of the new housing figures? Is he aware that the feeling is increasing that the Tories do not understand the problem of working-class people who are condemned to live year after year in rotten housing which is not being helped by improvement grants? I invite him to come to my borough. He knows that in my borough, despite any number of improvement grants, the number of houses available for ordinary working-class people is decreasing. We know that there are new buildings but they are not in Lambeth. There is not enough land in Lambeth.
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