§ SIR R. ASSHETON CROSSasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department; What steps have been taken by the Commissioners of Sewers under "The Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act, 1882," towards ensuring the building of suitable accommodation on the ground cleared under the Act of 1875?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT,in reply, said, that he had been in communication with the Commissioners of Sewers with regard to the proposals of December, 1882, for providing dwellings for artizans and labourers in Golden Lane and Petticoat Lane. The plans were carefully scrutinized by the Home Office; and the Commissioners, in their letter to him of the 4th instant, assured him that they hoped to recommit those plans for consideration during the present week, and expressed their earnest desire to come to a conclusion with the work as soon as possible.