HC Deb 18 November 1969 vol 791 cc244-5W
101. Mr. Henig

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will introduce legislation to amend the Clean Air Act, 1956, so as to ensure that when local authorities designate smokeless zones, council house tenants are given the same rights as owner-occupiers.

Mr. Skeffington

No. Complaints about the present arrangements have been negligible. It would be wrong to pay grant to a tenant for installing appliances which, as his own property, he could later remove; and uniformity of heating on council estates is often justified economically.