§ SIR CHARLES DALRYMPLE (Ipswich)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board, whether the work of his Department, owing to recent legislation, has enormously increased, and the officers are overworked, while there is the greatest delay in granting orders for work agreed to be done, and in preparing and issuing Tables and Returns; and whether it is intended to take any steps to obtain from the Treasury the necessary means for increasing the staff of the Department to meet the requirements of the time?
§ MR. CHAPLINIt is the fact that the work of the Local Government Board has, owing to recent legislation, been enormously increased. Every effort is made by the staff to meet the pressure, but it has not always been practicable to dispose of the cases as promptly as I could wish. The question of an increase of the staff of the Department is receiving my attention and I am in communication with the Treasury on the subject.