§ Sir T. Mooreasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether, owing to the presence of evacuees and civil servants in many summer and seaside resorts, he will take steps to abrogate, for the time being, the overcrowding provision of the Housing Act of 1935?
§ Mr. ColvilleWhere those provisions of the Act of 1935 under which overcrowding is a statutory offence are operative, they may be temporarily relaxed in exceptional circumstances at the discretion of the local authority. Accordingly the necessity for the action suggested by my hon. and gallant Friend would not appear to arise.