MR. KILBRTDE (on behalf of the hon. Member for North Leitrim, Mr. P. A. M'Hugh)I beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works whether he has yet completed arrangements for the accommodation of Members desiring to use type-writing machines within the precincts of this House?
§ MR. HERBERT GLADSTONEThe number of hon. Members who themselves use type-writing machines is very small, and I am afraid I cannot set apart any room for their special use. But I have now made arrangements by which a staff of clerks, with the requisite number of machines, will be at the service of hon. Members, and prepared to take work at a price which has been agreed upon. The room to be used specially for this purpose will be the smaller of the rooms formerly occupied by the Railway Commissioners, access to which is obtained on the south side of St. Stephen's Hall. Work will lie begun on Wednesday next.