§ 46. Lieut. - Colonel D A L R Y M P L E WHITEasked the Prime Minister whether instances have been brought to his notice of landlords demanding from tenants of shops and business premises, on extension of lease, rents four or five times higher than the rents which these have hitherto been paying; whether such premises are sometimes sold over the head of the tenant without the latter having had an opportunity of offering for the same; and whether he will introduce legislation to secure some form of arbitration in such cases?
§ THE PRIME MINISTERThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The question of introducing legislation to deal with this grievance will be considered. Meanwhile particulars of cases of hardships should be forwarded to me.
§ Mr. MACQUISTENWill the right hon. Gentleman also see, where shopkeepers and others are making ten or twelve times the profits that they made before the War, that the public are in some way protected?