In regard to miners' houses alone, out of a total of 128,000 repairable dwellings we have repaired 109,000, which is pretty good going.
So far as the repairable houses are concerned, my investigations tell me that only just over 100,000 of these have been dealt with each year.
Until that repeal, any island road that had been dedicated to the public was automatically repairable by the local authority.
It is perfectly true that most roads are repairable at public expense, but supposing they are not—what difference does it make?
They cover situations where school premises are no longer repairable in practice and where no alternative provision exists.
We have made electoral mistakes before, but they are all repairable.
Of these, 25 were classified as category 3 (repairable locally).
Many houses, quite repairable at the beginning of the war, may now have become completely unfit because of lack of repair.
