MR. W. F. B. MASSEY-MAIN-WAKING (Finsbury, Central)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if this year the funds will be provided necessary to complete the frontage of the South Kensington Museum; and, if so, will it be a condition that the extra space shall be available for the exhibition of objects of art, and not for any increase to the present number of offices.
Mr. MASSEY-MAINWARTNGalso asked the Secretary to the Treasury if the necessary funds will be provided so that the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Natural History Museum may be lighted with an electric installation?
§ MR. HANBURYThese questions should more properly be addressed to my right hon. Friend the First Commissioner of Works, but if the hon. Member will refer to Class I. of the Estimates for 1897–98, issued last week, he will see for himself that it is not proposed to ask Parliament to provide funds for the purposes mentioned during the coming year.