§ MR. HENRY HOBHOUSE (Somersetshire, E.)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if he is going to revise the model bye-laws for buildings in rural districts; if he will lay them in their revised form upon the Table of the House: and if he will take care to distinguish between those applicable to scattered country villages and those applicable to more populous places.
§ MR. WALTER LONGI am preparing a series of model bye-laws with respect to new buildings in rural districts, which will deal only with matters most in need of control for purposes of health. The series is intended as a guide to rural district councils wishing to make bye-laws-on the subject, and will be specially applicable to places consisting of scattered dwellings. It will be competent to a district council in any particular case to propose any modifications and additions which appear to them necessary to meet the circumstances of the locality. The model is only intended by way of suggestion to the rural councils with whom rests the initiative as to making bye-laws. In these circumstances it hardly seems to me necessary to lay the model on the Table of the House; but I shall be happy to show a copy to my hon. friend before it is issued.