asked the Minister of Health what steps he proposes to take to increase the licences for local authority and private house building in the Boroughs of Bewdley and Kidderminster, in view of the enlargement of the national programme for house building from 175,000 to 200,000 during the year 1950–51.

Under standing administrative procedure future allocations will be notified to each local authority in due course by my principal regional officers.