§ MR. HANDEL COSSHAM (Bristol, E.)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to the fact that the Earl of Harewood has hitherto refused to sell or grant a site in the parish of Dunkeswick for the erection of a Wesleyan chapel, and whether, as a consequence, they are obliged to conduct their worship in various houses in the parish; and, whether the Government will be prepared to support a Bill com- 22 pelling landowners to grant sites on reasonable terms for the erection of places of worship?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)I am not aware whether the Earl of Harewood has refused to sell a site at Dunkeswick. On the 18th of March he informed me that the arrangements made for Wesleyan worship in that parish were amply sufficient; and I understand, from a telegram received this morning from the Earl of Harewood, that the arrangements lately made at Harewood will supply the wants of both parishes. There is a Bill now before the House by which sites for places of public worship may be compulsorily obtained. The Government will be prepared to give an opinion on the question raised by the hon. Member when that Bill comes up for discussion.