§ 132. Mrs. Middletonasked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the activities of certain persons in buying up compensation rights in war-destroyed house properties and selling such properties after rebuilding at inflated prices; and whether he will take steps to put an end to this profiteering at the expense of the would be purchaser and often to the disadvantage of the former tenant.
§ Mr. BevanI should deprecate but I am not aware of such activities: the imposition of conditions such as are suggested in the Question would require legislation and I can hold out no prospect of that.