Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 12 Rhagfyr 1973.
I must make clear that there has been no cut-back in public housing programmes under the Conservative Government. We have deliberately avoided any such action. Local authorities have had every possible encouragement from us to build more houses. The hon. Gentleman is incorrect in saying that the only things that have gone up are those that he listed. He should also have listed the number of housing improvements, which have risen to a sensational level compared with what they were in the earlier period—64,000 approved in the first nine months of this year—and also the record numbers of private house completions under the Conservative Government. I believe that there is no local authority which has not had every possible encouragement from the Government to carry out its building programme.