§ MR. FLOWER (Bradford, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether consent has been given to the scheme of the Whitechapel and Bow Railway Company to erect dwellings for working class occupiers displaced from Whitechapel and along the projected route of the railway in the residential districts of the Wellington Road, the Mornington Road, and Bow Road; whether the local authorities have been consulted in the matter; and if he will now cause an inquiry to be held as to the possibility of the railway company acquiring an alternative site.
§ *SIR M. WHITE RIDLEYThe scheme in question has been provisionally, but not yet formally, approved. The second and third paragraphs seem to raise points which do not fall within the scope of my duties in the matter.
§ MR. FLOWERIs it not possible for the right hon. Gentleman to consult the local authorities?
§ *SIR M. WHITE RIDLEYI apprehend that the duty of the Secretary of State is to see that the site proposed is a suitable one for the class of dwellings to be erected.