§ 51. Mr. PIRIEasked the Secretary for Scotland, seeing that the building of Government offices is to take place in Edinburgh, if he has made representations to the proper authorities of the desirability that the housing in that city of a Scottish Parliament should be contemplated in any decision that may be come to?
§ Mr. PIRIEMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman why he does not answer my question: I put it to him on Tuesday as well as to-day?
§ Mr. PIRIEI beg the right hon. Gentleman's pardon. I have the book here, and can contradict him most flatly.
§ 52. Mr. PIRIEasked the Secretary for Scotland as the scheme for the erection of 235 permanent Government Offices in Edinburgh on the site of the Calton Prison has been submitted to him, "whether he will state what Government Offices it is proposed to erect on that site; whether provision is being made for the Scottish Insurance Commissioners; and can he state to where it is proposed to transfer the prison?
§ Mr. WEDGWOOD BENN (Lord of the Treasury)The question as to what Government Departments will be accommodated on the Calton Hill site is still under consideration. No statement can be made at present in regard to the prison.
§ Mr. PIRIEMay I ask the hon. Gentleman whether representations have been made to him by the Scottish Office on the subject, seeing that the Welsh party are sending a deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in order to make representations for a Welsh Parliament in Cardiff?