§ Mr. BRIGGSasked the Minister of Health whether he will consider the unfair position created between the two groups of tenants of municipal property built since the War, namely, the tenants who live in the houses built in 1920–21 who are paying from 21s. to 24s. per week, inclusive of rates, and the prospective tenants of municipal houses of the same character now being built alongside the former class, and of which the rents will be considerably lower; and will he consider the possibility of relieving those working-class houses which are so highly rented from their present liability to Inhabited House Duty?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI do not think that the anomaly suggested by the hon. Member will arise. The rents of houses erected under the assisted scheme are based not on capital cost, but on the rents of comparable houses in the district, and I do not contemplate that local authorities will adopt any other basis in the case of further houses erected by them.