§ MR. FIELDTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will arrange to have a Return to date of Private Bills (Ireland) (Expenses) (in continuation of No. 356, of Session 1892, and (from 1892 to 1898) of No. 344, of Session 1900), to be prepared 731 and printed for the information of the House.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) My right hon. friend has asked me to answer this Question, as the Returns to which it refers and which it is desired to continue include, not Ireland only, but the whole of the United Kingdom. The Return is a very heavy one, and it has not been usual to give it except at longer intervals than that which has elapsed since the last one was given. I will, however, communicate with the Departments on whom the work of preparing the Return chiefly falls, before coming to a decision in the matter.