§ MR. WHITMORE (Chelsea)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, and when, it is intended to remove Millbank Penitentiary from its present site; and, whether, in the event of its removal, the Government will endeavour to give effect to the suggestion contained in the Report of 24 the Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes, that this site should be used for "workmen's dwellings and for open spaces connected there-with"?
§ THE SECRETARY or STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)Yes, Sir; it is intended to discontinue the use of Millbank Penitentiary in the course of the present year. I can assure my hon. Friend that the Government will endeavour to give effect to the recommendations of the Royal Commissioners on this head, so far as they can consistently with the provisions of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1885.