§ SIR FREDERICK BANBURYI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if he can state the total cost to date of the receiving house for children at 54, East India Dock Road, Poplar; and also the total cost to date of the poor law schools of the Poplar union at Hutton, Essex.
§ MR. RUNCIMANThe total expenditure sanctioned in respect of the receiving home is £14,210, and in respect of the schools £156,545. I am not able to state the precise amounts which have been spent on them.