§ SIR CHARLES RUSSELLasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether, having regard to the serious injury caused by the flooding of the River Thames and its tributaries, it is the intention of Government to introduce any measure with a view to mitigating this evil for the future?
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTH,in reply, said, the general question of the damage done by the recent floods had engaged his attention and also that of his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department. He had caused information to be collected which might be useful in the event of legislation, or for the purpose of determining whether legislation was necessary or not. With regard to the special case of the Thames, the Conservancy Commissioners had made a very full and detailed allusion to the subject in their annual Report, which had, he believed, been presented to the House by his right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade. That Report, he hoped, would in a few days be in the hands of his hon. and gallant Friend, and he would suggest to him that ho should renew the Question after he had had the opportunity of seeing it.