§ Mr. BUCHANANasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware that in certain cases the rents charged for slum clearance houses in Glasgow are beyond the reach of a large number of persons who are called upon to live in the new houses; and if he will have representations made either for reconsideration of the rents to be paid or to allow those on Poor Law relief a slight increase to meet the extra demand?
§ Sir J. GILMOURI am not aware that the rents charged for the new houses built in Glasgow for the accommodation of persons displaced by schemes of slum clearance are beyond the reach of the tenants generally. In fixing the annual rents of the houses at such very low figures as £12 10s. for the two-apartment houses and £15 10s. for the three-apartment houses, the corporation had before them the circumstances of the people by whom the houses were to be occupied, and I see no reason for making repre sentations of the nature suggested.