§ MR. STEADMANI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, having regard to the state of the river Lee, and the complaints which have been made with regard thereto by the various local authorities through whose districts the river runs, he is prepared to take the necessary steps for obtaining the re-appointment of the Select Committee on the Rivers Pollution (River Lee) which sat in 1886, and recommended that, in consequence of the dissolution of Parliament in that year, they should be appointed on the assembling of the next Parliament to consider their Report on the evidence already taken, and, if desirable, to take further evidence.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI understand the view of the Local Government Board is that as there is a Bill now before Parliament, which has passed the Committee: stage of this House, to re-constitute the Lee Conservancy Board, the time does not seem opportune for appointing a Select Committee on the subject referred to in the hon. Gentleman's question.