§ Major Nieldasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider taking steps to remove the hardship caused to some property owners the rental of whose houses is so restricted as to be fixed at an uneconomical level.
§ Mr. WillinkI have been asked to reply. The whole question of rent control is being considered by the Inter-Departmental Committee which was set up last year by my predecessor and the Secretary of State for Scotland, and the evidence which has been submitted to the Committee includes the views of organisations representing property owners