§ Mr. Clive Soley (Hammersmith)On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. My point arises from the admissibility of questions. Today there are on the Order Paper questions to the Secretary of State for the Environment about empty 1126 properties in the private sector. In the past there have been questions about the empty properties of housing associations and local authorities. To my certain knowledge, two questions about the number of Government-owned empty properties—the Government have a far greater percentage of empty properties than has any other sector, including local authorities, which have the lowest percentage—were transferred to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. There must be a way of getting the Secretary of State for the Environment to answer questions about those empty properties, particularly when the Government are responsible for a far higher percentage of them than anybody else.
§ Mr. SpeakerI have no knowledge of that. As the hon. Gentleman knows, I am not responsible for the transfer of questions, but I am sure that what he has said has been noted by the Government Front Bench.