§ MR. ANDERSONasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, If he has found among the Papers there an Estimate, which had been prepared and was to have been submitted to the House by his predecessor, to cover the cost of certain alterations proposed to be made in the gallery, for the purpose of enabling Mr. Speaker to give some accommoda- 331 tion to reporters for provincial newspapers; and, if that Estimate is to be submitted this Session?
§ LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISHSir, I am informed that the question of finding additional accommodation for reporters of the proceedings of this House had been under the consideration of the late Government; but no final decision had been taken with respect to it. The subject will, I have no doubt, occupy the early attention of my right hon. Friend the First Commissioner of Works; but it would, under any circumstances, be impossible to begin the necessary work until the close of the present Session.