§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEasked the Secretary to the Treasury, If he will inform the House if, owing to the large amount of the debt incurred by the Metropolitan Board of Works, any steps have been recently taken to induce the Board to prepare and present annually to Parliament a statement of its liabilities; and if, in the event of a refusal on its part to do so, he intends to take any further steps on the subject?
§ MR. W. H. SMITH,in reply, said, the accounts of the Metropolitan Board of Works were presented annually to Parliament, showing in a complete form the existing liabilities. There had recently been a correspondence between the Board and the Treasury with reference to further borrowing powers, which the Board desired to obtain. There would be no objection to lay the correspondence on the Table of the House if the noble Lord would move for it.