§ 58. Mr. ISAACSasked the Minister of Health if, in the proposed new legislation dealing with rent restrictions, he will consider including conditions intended to prevent the charging of excessive rentals for furnished rooms by providing that the charged for rooms and for furnishing shall be separately quoted; and that the rental for rooms unfurnished shall be a fair proportion of the total rental of the whole house?
§ 60. Mr. CHATERasked the Minister of Health whether he intends to intro-duce legislation to make illegal the ex-action of excessive rents for decontrolled pre-War houses and sub-lettings thereof?
§ Mr. GREENWOODI would refer my hon. Friends to the statement made in reply to questions asked by the right hon. Member for Woolwich West (Sir K. Wood) and the hon. Member for Barn-staple (Sir B. Peto) on the 31st October. I am afraid that I cannot add anything to that statement.
§ Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLEDoes the right hon. Gentleman not recognise that an immense amount of profiteering is going on and an immense amount of hard-ship, and that this matter does require immediate treatment?
§ Mr. GREENWOODI have already dealt with that point in answer to an earlier question.