§ Dr. SHIELSasked the Secretary for Scotland if his attention has been called 711W to the many cases where recipients of parish relief are being compelled to pay excessive rents for poor and insanitary accommodation; and will he issue instructions to parish councils to take the legal steps which are open to them to prevent the waste of public money and the exploitation of the poor and helpless?
§ Sir J. GILMOURThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. As regards the second part, I am not sure that I understand to what legal steps the hon. Member refers.