§ 49. Sir M. Galpernasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will seek power to ensure that, before public houses are established in housing schemes where they do not presently exist, not less than 10 per cent. of the electors within the scheme shall represent to the local authority that they desire such facilities, and that thereon the local authority shall carry out a referendum among all the electors within the scheme in the same manner as a temperance poll under the Licensing (Scotland) Act, 1959, and a resolution shall be held to have been adopted if a majority of the votes recorded are in favour of the resolution, and not less than 35 per cent. of the total electorate for the housing scheme have voted in favour thereof.
§ Mr. RossNo. The Guest Committee considered this possibility in its second Report and recommended against it.