§ MR. WHITWELLasked the President of the Local Government Board, If he is aware whether the local authorities of Uppingham have taken steps to commence the drainage works sanctioned by the Local Government Board; whether they have deferred advertising for tenders for the work till the operations for the water supply of the town have been provided; whether the town is liable for the costs incurred by the local authority in opposing the Water Supply Bill, or by further procrastination; and, whether the return of the school to the town has been postponed thereby till next year; and what steps the Local Government Board has taken to enforce the completion of the sanitary measures at Uppingham urgently necessary for checking the continued loss of life and injury to the school by the dangerous state of the drains?
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTH,in reply, said, that the postponement of the return of pupils to this school was not due exclusively to the non-completion of drainage works.