§ Mr. RAMSAY MACDONALDasked the Secretary for Scotland whether his attention has been drawn to the frequent sales of houses in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and elsewhere in Scotland where munition workers and soldiers' families have to live; whether these sales, as a rule; are preparatory to evictions of the tenants, which increase the difficulties of finding house accommodation and the evils of overcrowding; and, if so, whether he proposes to do anything to check this grievance?
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§ Mr. MUNROVarious representations on this subject have reached me, from which I am led to suppose that the exception contained in the Rent Restriction Act in regard to houses sold by the owner does in some cases operate so as to constitute a grievance, and I am in consultation with my colleagues as to the best means of dealing with the situation so created.