§ Mr. SHORTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, as representing the Ministry of Health, whether he is aware that the housing shortage in Stafford is being rendered more acute by reason of the fact that the English Electrical Company are securing orders for the eviction of former employés from houses owned by the company on the ground that it is necessary to bring key men from Coventry, where the firm's works have been closed; and whether, in view of the fact that there are many skilled electrical engineers in Stafford who were formerly employed by the firm in question or their predecessors, and are now out of employment, he can make any representations with a view to stopping the eviction of people who will be utterly unable to find accommodation elsewhere in the town?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS:It rests with the Courts to decide whether an Order shall be granted for the recovery of the possession of a dwelling house in a case of this kind, and my right hon. Friend has no authority to intervene.
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