§ 31. Mr. Derek Walker-Smithasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that a house at' 6, Broadclyst Gardens, Thorpe Bay, near Southend, Essex, the property of Mrs. Ivy Allison Bird of the White House, High Oak Road, Ware, was requisitioned by the Southend borough council on 25th July, 1947, and has remained unoccupied thereafter; and whether in these circumstances and in view of the fact that Mrs. Bird wishes to let the house to a young ex-Serviceman and his wife, he will cause the local authority to derequisition this house forthwith.