MR. E. B. DENISONasked the First Commissioners of Works, Whether any amended scheme opening up the approaches to Hyde Park Corner has been finally approved by the Office of Works?
§ MR. GERARD NOELSir, I have a scheme to open up the approaches to Hyde Park Corner. I have carefully considered all the different plans which have been proposed, all of them have considerable merit, especially the one shadowed forth by my right hon. Friend the Member for Clackmannan (Mr. Adam); but in my opinion they would not remedy the evil complained of, I mean the block to the traffic at Hyde Park Corner; the question must be dealt with in a more comprehensive manner. If you do the thing at all, you ought to do it well. This would require a considerable expenditure, and in present circumstances, with a Revenue not too flourishing, I fear I cannot ask Parliament for a Vote for this purpose. My hon. Friend must remember that a considerable sum has been spent in improving Rotten Row. I hope, therefore, he will not press me further this year; but if he will be good enough to repeat his Question in Feb- 899 ruary, 1878, I shall hope to give him a more satisfactory answer and to show him a plan which, if carried out, would effect the object he has in view, and, at at the same time, I am sanguine enough to believe would prove an ornament to the metropolis.