§ MR. CAUSTONasked the junior Member for Leeds, now that the Committee on plans for the restoration of Westminster Hall has agreed to its Report, If he will comply with the request recently made to him, that, in order to enable Members to judge of the effect of the West side of Westminster Hall were the works to be carried out there to be limited to restoring the buttresses and flying buttresses, he will, before the House is asked to decide upon the question of restoration, give instructions to have the painted screens in the two central bays removed, and the flying buttress flanking them temporarily finished in similar style to the pinnacles now exposed to view; whether ample time will be given to honourable Members to consider the Evidence and Report of the Committee before the House is called upon to decide the matter; and, whether he will undertake that the discussion in Committee shall come on at a convenient hour and after full notice?
§ MR. HERBERT GLADSTONEThere will be no objection to leaving one of the canvas pinnacles after removing the painted screens in the central bays, so that hon. Members may see the effect of the proposal of my hon. Friend. It would be useless to make an imitation flying buttress, as the masonry of the original flying buttresses themselves will not be altered. Ample time will be given to hon. Members to consider the evidence after it is published. The discussion will be taken in Committee of Supply on the Vote for the Houses of Parliament, which, being in Class I., will have precedence and will be taken first.