§ Sir A. HOLBROOKasked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the tenants of the War Department hutments on Perham Down, Salisbury Plain, in which about 100 families of men employed at Tidworth Ordnance depot and other Government establishments are accommodated, have now been called upon to pay local rates in addition to the rents agreed upon; and whether, considering the condition of the hutments and the expense to which the tenants are put to preserve them in a habitable condition, he will consider the desirability of relieving them from their additional burden?
§ Sir A. MONDMy attention had not previously been drawn to the matter. I have no power to relieve any person from the payment of rates, but I will inquire into the facts of the case.