DR. FOSTER (Chester City)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council, Whether the Charity Commissioners prepared and circulated, in August 1884, a draft scheme relating to Lady Isabella Dodd's Charity, in Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, which omitted provisions for allotments; whether the Charity Commissioners have since inserted provisions for allotments therein, in accordance with section 14 of "The Allotments Extension Act, 1882;" whether the Charity Commissioners have omitted to insert provisions for allotments in certain schemes made by them after the passing of that Act, in relation to certain charities, part of the endowments of which consisted of land (other than buildings and the appurtenances of buildings); whether they have not, by such omission, disobeyed the Law; whether the Charity Commissioners have been asked to give a list of the Schemes in which such provisions have been omitted, so that their error might be remedied; whether they have refused that application; and, whether they will publish, or lay upon the Table of the House, such a list now?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir LYON PLAYFAIR) (Leeds, S.)To the first four Questions I have to reply in the affirmative, with the addition that full explanations were given by the right hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. E. Stanhope) in the House on the 4th and 11th of August last. It is true that he declined to publish a list of the schemes. Only 11 complete schemes which come under the Act of 1882 are in the list, 1636 and I will have pleasure in showing a list of them to the hon. Member, who can then consider whether he desires to move for them.