§ 41. Miss BONDFIELDasked the Minister of Health whether he will intro duce legislation to amend the Housing Act, 1925, so as to place the onus of obtaining a certificate that a house is in proper sanitary condition upon the land lord instead of upon the tenant, so that unless a house is really fit for habitation the 40 per cent. post-War increase of rent will not be payable?
§ Sir K. WOODThe proposal made by the hon. Member would involve an Amendment of the Rent Restrictions Acts, and, while my right hon Friend has a good deal of doubt as to the merits of the particular suggestion, he cannot in any case give any undertaking at this stage regarding further legislation affecting those Acts.