§ MR. BAUMANN (Camberwell, Peckham)asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether the Middlesex House of Detention and the Middlesex House of Correction, both situate in the parish of St. John and St. James, Clerkenwell, and occupying an area of about eleven acres, are no longer wanted for the purposes of prisons; and, if so, whether 477 the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury will, in accordance with Clause 3 of "The Houses of the Working Classes Act, 1885," recommend Her Majesty, without further delay, to sell and convey that site, or any part or parts thereof, to the Metropolitan Board of Works, at a fair market price, for the purposes of the said Act?
THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. CHILDERS) (Edinburgh, S.)(who replied) said, he had answered an identical Question the other day. He was now considering what was the best means of disposing of the sites under the Act of Parliament, and no unnecessary delay would be allowed to take place.