§ Sir H. NIELDasked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in view of the profiteering which prevails in the letting of houses and flats of rentals beyond the scope of the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest Acts, and also in view of the arbitrary manner landlords are demanding large and inconsiderable increase of rent under threat of notice to quit and ejectment proceedings, he will consider the advisability of extending the provisions of the Profiteering Act so as to include dwelling-houses and shops on short-term tenancies and to make such enactment retrospective so as to give relief in cases where under duress excessive rents have been exacted?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Prime Minister on Monday last to a question on this subject by the hon. and gallant Member for Southport.