§ MR. PICKERSGILLI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board what steps have been taken by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, under the new Order, to provide accommodation for juvenile prisoners under remand; and when such accommodation will be available?
§ MR. CHAPLINThe Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums District are proceeding without delay with the consideration of arrangements which can be best made for provision for the several classes of children (including the remand children) of whom they are to undertake the care, and the Local Government Board have had more than one interview with the Managers on the subject. But it is impossible at present to state when the accommodation for the children referred to by the hon. Member will be available.
§ MR. PICKERSGILLasked whether new buildings were to be erected for the accommodation of this class of prisoners?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYsaid that he could not exactly say whether the Managers of the Board were erecting new buildings for the purpose or whether the accommodation would be provided in the existing buildings.