asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered a petition from tenants of the Gloucester Corporation protesting against the new scheme of rent rebates adopted by the corporation; and whether he proposes to arrange for the holding of the local inquiry for which the petitioners ask?

I have received the petition referred to. As regards the second part of the Question, the management of their housing estates is by statute expressly left to the discretion of the local authority. I, like my predecessors, have therefore no jurisdiction in such a matter, and I cannot properly intervene.