asked the Attorney-General whether the consultations have now been completed between the Lord Chancellor's Department and the other Departments concerned about the difficulties encountered by tenants of tied cottages in not being able to present their case of hardship before a court for consideration when proceedings are taken against them for possession by landlords; and what steps are to be taken to remedy this so that county courts may in all such cases have the right to grant extensions of tenancy in suitable cases as they have in respect of those cases which are taken in their jurisdiction at present.