Sia, — Your correspondent Mrs. Audrey Harvey criticises the present Government's record
in the field of housing, claiming, among other things, that the rate of council building has been 'pretty nearly halved.
It may interest her to know that by 1957 (the latest year for which I have figures), the Cohscrva- tives had built a total of more than 1,500,000 houses and flats since they came to office in 1951. Of these, 1,100,000 had been council houses-300,000 more than the Socialists constructed during their entire six years in office. Indeed, during six years of Tory administration, twice as many houses were com- pleted as in six years of Socialism. These, surely, are achievements deserving of Taper's designation, 'notable and constructive, but I imagine that he had equally in mind the con- siderable progress being made with slum clearance, evidence of which cannot possibly have. escaped Mrs.
• Harvey's noticc.7-Yours faithfully,
A. J. MICHAEL DAWS
63 City Road, Norwich
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