§ MR. O. V. MORGAN (Battersea)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, in view of the overwhelming public necessities of Battersea, with its 135,000 inhabitants, he has any objection to the Report of the Government Medical Officer under the Burials Acts, upon the Rose Hill Park Site, Sutton, being laid upon the Table of the House; and, whether, having regard to the extreme urgency of the matter for Battersea, the Government will, at the same time, lay upon the Table any official information with respect to any opposition which was not before the Inspector at the said inquiry; and, if so, will afford the Battersea Burial Board an opportunity of answering the same?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)The Report of the Government Medical Officer on the proposed cemetery at Sutton is a Departmental Report, confidentially furnished to assist my Predecessor in coming to the decision which be gave refusing to sanction a cometery in Sutton. I see no necessity for laying on the Table of the House that Report, or other official information since received; but I will give the Battersea Burial Board every opportunity to put forward whatever observations they think fit material.