MR. LLOYD MORGAN (Carmarthen, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Parish Council for St. Clears, in the county of Carmarthen, have communicated with him in reference to the use of the justices' room for the purpose of holding Parish Council meetings under Section 4 of the Local Government Act, 1894; whether, having considered the representations made to him, both for 1320 and against the use of the room, he communicated his consent to the chairman of the Parish Council; whether the Standing Joint Committee, in the face of this communication, refused the Council the use of the room; and whether, under the circumstances, he will direct the Standing Joint Committee to grant the Parish Council the use of the room on any reasonable occasion?
MR. GEORGE RUSSELLThe facts are as stated in the question. The Standing Joint Committee are bound by Section 4 of the Local Government Act, 1894, to allow the use of the room to the Parish Council. I think they must have misunderstood the law, and I will communicate with them further.