asked the Secretary of State for Scotland when was the last Scottish Housing Survey undertaken by the Department of Health and the local authorities; and what were the figures for housing need in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, so disclosed.

A survey of overcrowding in Scotland was carried out in 1935. This disclosed a need for 46,633 additional houses in Glasgow, 11,155 in Edinburgh, 5,367 in Aberdeen and 7,552 in Dundee, to relieve overcrowding then existing.