MR. BROMLEY DAVENPORTasked whether the works in connection with the proposed Channel Tunnel were still being carried on?
§ MR. CHAMBERLAIN, in reply, said, that the works to which he referred were, of course, the experimental works, in anticipation of the works for the Tunnel, and not the works for the Tunnel itself. But, with regard to the state of those works, he had already stated that it was impossible for him to obtain positive information until he had been allowed to inspect them. Up to the present time he had not been able to get an opportunity of inspecting them amicably, and he was now in communication with the Law Officers of the Crown to see whether it was not possible to obtain an inspection in some other way.
MR. BROMLEY DAVENPORTsaid, he hoped that the right hon. Gentleman would lose no time in obtaining the information, amicably or otherwise.
§ MR. GREGORYasked whether the application to the Law Officers of the Crown did not refer to the stoppage of the works as well as to the inspection of them?
§ [No reply was given to this Question.]