§ Mr. Neil Thorne accordingly presented a Bill to enable those who go into Part III Accommodation under the National Assistance Act 1948 to assign up to a half share in their freehold or long leasehold property to a companion who has been residing with them for not less than five years and to assign the remaining share of their freehold or long leasehold property to the local authority, the capital value of which share shall become an interest in the local authority old peoples' home in which the assignor is to reside: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 1 March and to be printed. [Bill 65.]