§ MR. BAILLIE COCHRANEasked the First Commissioner of Works, Whether he is aware that when the houses in Parliament Street, opposite the Public Offices now being erected, are pulled 1414 down, the width of the space acquired for the public will be eighty-seven feet at one end and sixty feet at the other; and, what use he contemplates making of the narrow space if he does not add it to the width of Parliament Street?
§ MR. AYRTONsaid, that as long as the houses in question were standing it would be entirely unnecessary for him to consider what was to be done with the land on which they stood. When they were pulled down it would be the duty of the First Commissioner, in communication with the Treasury, to decide what should be done with the vacant ground, which would belong to the Crown.
§ MR. BAILLIE COCHRANEWhen will the Houses be pulled down?
§ MR. AYRTONWhen the new Home and Colonial Offices are completed; but in the present state of the building trade it would be impossible to fix a date for their completion.