§ 90. Mr. MARDY JONESasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, as representing the Ministry of Health, whether he is aware of the bad state of the drainage of sewage in connection with the State-assisted houses built by the Cowbridge Rural District Council at Llantwit Major, Glamorgan, and of the repeated complaints made by the tenants and by the local parish council for months past to the said rural council without avail; and will he take steps to have these drainage defects remedied immediately?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSNo complaints have been received in regard to the drainage of the houses in question, but I will make inquiries into the matter.
§ Mr. MARDY JONESIs the hon. Gentleman aware that the local parish council have protested to the rural council, and that I have personally visited the spot, and the facts are as stated in the question?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSI am afraid that Ministers cannot be responsible for protests which do not reach them. No protest has reached the Minister.