On Tuesday Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Minister of Health, introduced
the Government's Housing Bill. We deal with the issues involved and with the great "Parlour or No Parlour" controversy in our leading columns. Here we may simply recall that the main provision of the Bill is that the State shall contribute £6 a year for twenty years to the local authorities for any house built with -a superficial area not greater than 850 square feet. The Labour Party opposed the Bill as inadequate. The Independent Liberals did not oppose the Bill 'because of the urgency of the question, but on Wednesday turned on Sir John Simon to criticize it. The AttorneyGeneral at the end of the debate on Wednesday announced that in Committee Mr. Neville Chamberlain would give further consideration to the size of the houses " without departing for an instant from the intentions of the Bill." The Bill was given its second reading by -a majority of 200.
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