asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether the proposal to build a rehabilitation resettlement centre for single homeless males on the Ennersdale Road Drill Hall site at Hither Green, Lewisham, has had its starting date put back as a result of the public expenditure cuts announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 17th December ; and whether he will announce the new proposed starting date.
I have been asked to reply.This project has not been deferred as part of the recent cuts. But the estimated starting date given by my right hon. Friend the then Minister for Housing and
Construction in answer to the hon. Member's Question on 10th May 1972—[Vol. 836, c.
367]—proved to be incapable of achievement because of difficulties during planning and a site start is not now expected before the summer of 1975 at the earliest.