§ Mr. DUNCANasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, as representing the Ministry of Health, whether his attention has been directed to difficulties which have arisen at New Houghton, Derbyshire, where orders for the possession of houses have been given by the County Court Judge at the Mansfield County Court, and the impossibility of finding houses by those who are to be dispossessed; whether he has made, or will make, inquiry into the matter, with a view to preventing the greatest hardship on some of those concerned, who are married people with families of children?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS:I have no information in regard to these particular cases, but I may point out that the matter is one for the Courts and the Department has no authority to intervene.