§ SIR WALTER FOSTER (Derbyshire, Ilkeston)To ask the Prime Minister whether, in consideration of the fact that the Select Committee appointed last year to consider the question of housing reported in December last, and also that a Bill was promised in the King's Speech on the opening of Parliament this year he can give some assurance that a measure for the better housing of the working classes will be included in the programme for next session.
(Answered by Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman.) His Majesty's Government are fully alive to the importance of this question, and my right hon. friend may be assured that it is their intention to introduce legislation dealing with the better housing of the working classes at the earliest practicable moment. I may add that no effort on their part will be wanting to frame a measure which shall be adequate to the necessities of the case.