MR. HERBERT (Buckinghamshire, Wycombe)To ask the First Commissioner of Works whether, having regard to the fact that at present there is at the Royal Courts of Justice one Court too few for the existing number of Judges, and that it is proposed to appoint an additional Judge, he intends to provide Courts and rooms for two Judges; and whether, at any rate, he will, during the coming Long Vacation, proceed with the construction of the Court between Chancery Court 2 and the Lord Chancellor's Court, for which plans have long been in existence.
§ (Answered by Mr. Harcourt.) No provision has been made in the Estimates for the current year, and it will not, therefore, be possible to make new Courts or rooms until 1108–9, or to undertake any building such as is mentioned in the last paragraph of the Question.