§ MR. BRIGG (Yorkshire, W.R., Keighley)On behalf on the hon. Member for the Normanton Division of Yorkshire, I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the fact that the Wakefield Corporation have applied to the Local Government Board for sanction for a loan for the purchase of a site for an infectious diseases hospital for the use of the city of Wakefield, and that this site is outside the city of Wakefield and within the urban district of Stanley, where there is a growing urban population, and that the hospital is proposed to be placed in one of the best building districts of Stanley; and, seeing that objection is taken to the erection of the hospital by the inhabitants of Stanley, whether, before sanctioning the loan, he will cause special inquiry to be made as to whether there is a suitable site 257 for such hospital within the boundary of the city of Wakefield, or in places contiguous thereto, which are purely agricultural, and where there would be no interference with building development.
§ MR. WALTER LONGA local inquiry has recently been held by one of the inspectors of the Local Government Board with regard to an application for sanction to a loan for the purchase of a site for the proposed hospital. I have not at present received the inspector's report as to the inquiry, but when it comes before me I will give careful consideration to the matters referred to in the latter part of the question.