§ MR. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will consider the propriety of appointing an Inter-Departmental Committee, upon which the Treasury, War Office, and Admiralty would be represented, for the purpose of investigating the complaints which have recently been made as to the unsatisfactory condition of the barracks, hospitals, and burial grounds at Malta, with a view to the adoption of remedial measures in the interest of the health of the soldiers and sailors at that station, and of the families of officials employed at the dockyard at Valetta.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. J. CHAMBERLAIN,) Birmingham, W.I have not contemplated such a Committee as necessary, but will confer with the heads of the other Departments named as to its expediency.