The House moved on to the new Housing Bill on
Tuesday and ,Thutsday of this week. Mrs. Tate, amongst others, .appealed for a non-party approach-go this matter, but this is unlikely. The Opposition say the Government has done nothing, and is now trying to introduce a Bill to s;.-,v2 money by doing less. The Government is in a fairly strong position when it defends its own record, but there is no denying that the new proposal of £5 los. per house built is somewhat less than the previous subsidy of £2 los. per person re-housed. The rural housing subsidy of £m is more generous, and even, if it is true that some of this subsidy will go to private land- lords who ought to have built cottages wholly at their own expense, the Opposition is unlikely to prove successful in its efforts to convince the occupiers of the new houses of the iniquity of this state of affairs.
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