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Para 13: Miss Lee is dead right that immigration is a

worrying problem. In November last year we estimated that at the rate then current, and assuming immigrants comprise a typical dis- tribution in terms of age, sex and social

(dis) abilities, that the housing programme would need to be adjusted to provide an additional 30,000 flats by 1981, and 60,000 by 1986.

Para 14: Money is not the problem the capacity of the

economy is.

If you need ammunition on further points, Tony Miller will provide

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Your car,

Fran

(A.J. Scott) Secretary for Housing

c.c. Commissioner, London Office