HC Deb 01 April 1862 vol 166 c331
MR. PHILIPPS

said, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, When he intends to introduce the Lunacy Regulation Bill, and whether such Bill will contain any provision for the purpose of facilitating the building of a Lunatic Asylum by counties united for that purpose?

SIR GEORGE GREY

said, he must repeat the answer he had already given, that a Bill had been prepared on the subject, founded on a Report of a Committee of that House, but he could not say when it would be introduced, as he had received from the Lunacy Commissioners several suggestions relating to it of an important character, which must be submitted to the Poor Law Board. The Bill did contain a provision embodying the object referred to in the hon. Gentleman's question.