§ 81. Mr. Wiggasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs whether he has now received the application for 25W special permission for members of the Stourbridge Borough Council to vote at the council meeting on 27th July, 1959, on the motion protesting against the disposal of council houses in circumstances which will cause the citizens of Stourbridge to lose £378,000 Exchequer subsidy, thus increasing the rents of all post-war houses by 2s. 11d. a week; whether he has granted such permission; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Mr. H. BrookeI have now received further applications from seven members who are tenants of council houses and I am granting them dispensation to speak and to vote on the general issue of whether or not council houses should be sold. There is no case, on the facts known to me, for enabling these members to vote on the terms and conditions on which houses should be sold to sitting tenants but, as I indicated in my reply to the hon. Member's Question on 22nd July, they already have a dispensation which will allow them to speak on these aspects.