Part of Orders of the Day — Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Bill. – in the House of Commons at on 12 April 1938.
The suggestion has been constantly that in one form or another recontrol should be brought about. The committee said, and it is a very noteworthy admission:
The difficulties we have just enumerated were appreciated by most of the witnesses appearing on behalf of tenants who suggested the recontrol of decontrolled houses, and they were disposed to withdraw their suggestion when the difficulties were brought out in discussion.
This same matter was considered by the Ridley Committee. I may be a particularly stony-hearted man, but the hon. Member for East Birkenhead (Mr. White) is not. He and his colleagues had all this evidence before them. The statements of the Manchester Corporation were brought before the Committee, and they came to the same conclusion as the Marley Committee. In fact, the only difference that the hon. Member for East Birkenhead had with the Committee was on the question of how decontrol should be brought about.