§ Mr. TURNER-SAMUELSasked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Strickland v. Palmer, decided in the King's Bench Division last week, to the effect that the provisions of the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1920, gave the landlord the right to increase the rent to correspond with an increase of rates payable by a landlord in respect of a dwelling-house within the said Act, but that no provision existed to enable a tenant, on the happening of any contingency such as the reduction of rates, to go to the County Court and apply that the rent be reduced, or decrease the rent automatically with the fall in the rates, or determine the implied new tenancy created by the increase of rent permitted in respect of the increase of rates; and will he consider legislation immediately with a view to amending the law on the subject?
§ Mr. WHEATLEYI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave on Thursday last to similar questions by the hon. Members for Hulrne (Sir J. Nall) and South Islington (Mr. Cluse).