§ MR. WHITMORE (Chelsea)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he intends to offer to sell to the County Council of London the site of Millbank Penitentiary, so that it may be secured for workmen's dwellings and open spaces connected therewith, in accordance with the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS,) Birmingham, E.I offered the site of Millbank Penitentiary to the Metropolitan Board of Works on the 22nd of June last for the purpose of providing working class dwellings. The Board declined the offer. I intend, however, to renew the same offer to the County Council of London on the terms prescribed by the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1885, from which I am not at liberty to depart. The County Council will not be in a position to consider this offer till the month of April.