§ MR. BOWLES (Lambeth, Norwood)To ask the First Commissioner of Works whether he can say why it has become necessary to destroy the open space at the western side of the Law Courts by erecting additional Law Courts upon it; and what will be the estimated cost of these proposed erections.
(Answered by Mr. Harcourt.) To open space on the western side of the present Law Courts has always been reserved for the purpose of erecting additional ones. These being now required, the work has been put in hand at an estimated total cost of £95,000, of which £5,000 was voted in the Office of Works Estimates in this House on 2nd April this year.