Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 12 Rhagfyr 1973.
Is the Minister's reticence due to the fact that if he got these people together at a conference they would tell him the facts of life—which are that his cut-back in building in the public sector housing is causing acute social misery for thousands of Scottish families? Is it not a fact that in the three years during which he has been in charge of Scottish housing the only things, in housing terms, that have gone up have been prices, rents, mortgages and housing queues? Does he not remember that in his address to the electors of Ayr in 1966 he declared that to overcome the housing problem Scotland required a minimum of 50,000 new houses a year? Why is he singing a different song now that he is a Minister?