§ LORD COLIN CAMPBELLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the attention of the Government had been drawn to the regulations made by the Local Government Board with respect to the distribution of the sum of £250,000, voted by Parliament in aid of disturnpiked and main roads in England, Wales, and Scotland, and to the exclusion, under those regulations, of certain counties of Scotland from a share of the grant; and whether there is any intention to revise the regulations, and to give to the counties so excluded a share of the grant.
THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. B. BALFOUR)The portion of the grant appropriated to Scotland will this year be administered by the Home Office, and the principles on which it ought to be allocated are now under consideration.
§ LORD COLIN CAMPBELLasked whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman was able to give an assurance that the authority of the Local Government Board would not be again extended in a similar direction?