§ MR. HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the fact that the London School Board has acquired houses occupied by persons of the working class in Gopsall Street, New North Road, and has thereby displaced 350 persons of the poorer labouring class; and whether any provision has been made, or is proposed to lie made, for the rehousing of the persons displaced.
§ *MR. RITCHIEThe displacement to which I understand my hon. friend refers took place several years ago. It is included amongst the displacements in respect of winch my predecessor placed upon the School Board an obligation to rehouse by a special clause which he secured in a Provisional Order Confirmation Bill in 1899. The question of the amount of accommodation to be provided is the subject of correspondence between my Department and the School Board. I may add that the number of persons mentioned by my hon. friend does not 571 tally with the best estimates at my disposal.