§ MR. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he has received any further communication from the Green wich Board of Guardians asking for an interview; if so, what has been his reply, and if he will state his objection to seeing the representatives of the Greenwich Union and of the Deptford Borough Council; and whether, in view of the circumstances of the case, the Local Government Board would be prepared to permit the repayment of the loans in connection withe the building of Grove Park Workhouse to be spread over a term of sixty years if the guardians agreed to open it.
§ (Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) I have received a communication from the guardians asking for an interview, and the request is receiving my attention. As regards the period for the repayment of the loan referred to, I have already expressed my willingness to allow sixty years for so much of it as is required for the purpose of the site. As regards the remainder, the general question of the period to be allowed in cases of this 11 kind is now under my consideration in connection with the Report of the Select Committee on the Repayment of Loans by Local Authorities.