§ MR. GENT-DAVISasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to take steps at an early date in order that the disused prisons in the Metropolis named in the Dwellings Act of 1885 may be demolished, and that remunerative occupation for workmen as well as decent and cheap house accommodation for the poor may be provided by the erection of artizans' dwellings on the sites of these prisons?
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. CHILDERS)(who replied) said: The only two prisons of those named in the Act of 1885 which have, up to the present, been finally discontinued are Coldbath Fields and Clerkenwell. Treasury sanction has been asked, but not yet received, for the sale by auction of Coldbath Fields. The Middlesex Justices have not yet decided whether to accept or refuse the re-conveyance of Clerkenwell. With regard to the other two prisons named in the Act, Pentonville will not be discontinued, and the fate of Millbank is not yet decided upon.