§ Mr. BROMLEYasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, what arrangements, if any, were made with regard to rent arrears with the purchasers of the houses on the Abbots-mead estate, Barrow-in-Furness; on what terms were such arrears taken over by the new owners; did they permit of threatened proceedings against unemployed tenants on account of arrears which accumulated under the ownership of the Office of Works; and to whom were these houses sold?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONThe arrears were sold at two-thirds of their value, and the purchasers of course have the usual landlord's rights to recover them. The estate was sold to the Provincial Garden Cities, Ltd.