§ MR. MONTAGU (Tower Hamlets, Whitechapel)asked the hon. Member for the Knutsford Division of Cheshire, with reference to the Bell Lane, Spital-fields, Improvement Scheme, Whether he is aware that the average number of residents per acre in the Metropolis is stated to be 54, in Whitechapel 177, in Spitalfields 286, in Bell Lane it is 600, which last average might be fairly increased to 900, owing to the residential accommodation being restricted by the large free school building and omnibus yard in Bell Lane; and, whether the Metropolitan Board of Works will take steps to carry out immediately the Bell 704 Lane Improvement Scheme, which has been so many years in abeyance?
§ Mr. TATTON EGERTON (Cheshire, Knutsford)said, no doubt the figures contained in the Question were a fair approximation to correctness. The question of preparing a scheme for the improvement of Bell Lane was before the Board; but the consideration of it had been adjourned until July, when it was customary to determine what schemes should be submitted to Parliament for the following year. When the time came, the question to which the hon. Member referred would receive careful consideration.