asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, as representing the Ministry of Health, if he can state the average price tendered for the erection of houses at various intervals since 1st January, 1919, and specify the various classes or types of houses to which the prices were or are applicable?

I will send the hon. Member a statement giving the information which he desires.

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, as representing the Ministry of Health, whether he can state in regard to municipal housing schemes in county boroughs, and during the years 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913, what was the average cost per house for land, streets and sewers, and buildings; and what the same costs have amounted to in each of the years since 1918 in which house building has taken place in the same areas?

Between 1910 and 1913 houses were built by 12 county boroughs and the average prices of the houses were

	£
1910	177
1911	182
1912	166
1913	178

The total number of houses built by these authorities in this period was 726. Information as to the cost of land, roads and sewers is not available. Particulars as to the average prices for houses built in county boroughs in the period since 1918 are not available. The average tender prices of houses under the assisted scheme in each of the years from 1919 to 1922 are as follow:

	£
1919	795
1920	904
1921	766
1922	420

These tender prices are subject. to modification for fluctuations in costs of labour and materials. The average cost of land under the assisted scheme is £215 per acre in county boroughs. The average cost of street and sewer works per house are estimated at

	£	s.	d.
1919	50	0	0
1920	55	0	0
1921	70	0	0
1922	47	10	0