§ MR. COOPEasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether, after the adverse Report of the Committee appointed to investigate the sanitary state of the War Office, the Government is taken any, and, if so, what steps for the erection of a new office suitable to the wants of the Department?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,in reply, said, that with a view I to carry out the recommendations of the recent Committee, an estimate had been prepared of the cost of the works which would be necessary in order to put the building in a more satisfactory state, and that, this estimate having been considered and sanctioned by the Treasury, the works would be proceeded with at once. With regard to the opinion of the Committee that a new building was desirable, he could only say that the Government were very seriously considering what steps they ought to take in the matter.