§ Mr. Gallacherasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that wherever the protection of the Rent Restrictions Act has been withdrawn from tenants it has resulted in immediate rent increases amounting in some cases to 10s. per week; and whether as a consequence he is prepared to move the repeal of the decontrolling provisions of the 1938 Act and introduce a new Act extending the protection of rent control to all members?
§ Mr. ElliotI have no information which would lead me to suppose that there has been any widespread increase in the rents of the comparatively small number of houses decontrolled under the Act of last year. I cannot adopt the suggestion in the last part of the question.