§ 42. Mr. THOMAS COOKasked the Minister of Health if he is aware that tenants of houses built by the Erpingham Rural District Council along the Norfolk coast are forbidden to take in visitors; and whether, having regard to the fact that this rule penalises a certain 1708 section of the parishes thus affected, he will circularise local authorities deprecating this practice?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Mr. Shakespeare)My right hon. Friend is aware that one of the conditions upon which the Erpingham Rural District Council have let their houses is that the tenants should not be allowed to take visitors without the consent of the council. The management of such houses is, under the Housing Act, 1925, vested in local authorities and my right hon. Friend is not prepared to circularise local authorities in the sense suggested by my hon. Friend.
§ Mr. THORNEDoes the hon. Gentleman really mean that that condition is to remain and that a man is not to be entitled to take his mother-in-law into his house?