§ MR. CUNINGHAME GRAHAM (Lanarkshire, N.W.)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will call the attention of the London County Council and District Boards (Vestries) to the desirability of doing the whole of the work—namely, road-making, paving, sewers, embankments, &c., without the intervention of a contractor, all work to be done in the same way as in Lambeth and St. James's Vestries?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. RITCHIE,) Tower Hamlets, St. George'sThe responsibility for carrying out works 131 such as those referred to devolves on the Local Authorities, and it rests with them to determine what arrangements should be made for the execution of the works. The matter is not one in which the Local Government Board have any authority to intervene; but, if any santion on their part were necessary, the Board would not offer any objection to arrangements, as regards the execution of works, such as those suggested in the question.