§ MR. HOWARD SPENSLEY (Finsbury, Central)asked the Secretary to the Treasury, If he will, before further proceeding with the Public Parks and Works (Metropolis) Bill, lay upon the Table of the House an estimate of the debts and liabilities referred to in the Schedule to such Bill, and in Clauses 2 and 4 of the same, and Schedule of the property and assets to be transferred to the Metropolitan Board?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HENRY H. FOWLER) (Wolverhampton, E.)If the Public Parks 1138 and Works Bill be read a second time, I propose to agree to the Motion of which the right hon. Baronet the Member for Chelsea (Sir Charles W. Dilke) has given Notice—that it be referred to a Select Committee, by whom all questions of debts and liabilities and property and assets will be fully considered.