§ MR. HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If the time has arrived when the public may be safely re-admitted to view Westminster Hall, under proper restrictions, and the privilege of drilling therein on certain evenings be re-accorded to the Queen's Westminsters, the London Scottish, the London Irish, and other Metropolitan regiments of Volunteers which, until January 1885, had enjoyed it for a quarter of a century, and whose efficiency has only 1156 been maintained with the greatest difficulty, owing to no place being provided by the Government in lieu thereof?
THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. CHILDERS) (Edinburgh, S.)In reply to the hon. Member I may remind him that it was decided in December last by my Predecessor that it was not advisable as yet to relax the existing restrictions with regard to the use of Westminster Hall. I do not feel justified in departing from that decision, at least for the present.