63. Lieut.-Colonel MALONEasked the First Commissioner of Works who is now occupying the Russian Embassy in Chesham Place; and whether any charges fall upon His Majesty's Government for the upkeep of that building?
Mr. HARMSWORTHThe Russian Embassy is at present inhabited by Monsieur Sabline, the successor of Monsieur Nabokoff, and his staff; and it also provides workrooms for the Russian Relief Fund, the Russian Red Cross and Lady Georgina Buchanan's Relief Committee, numbering approximately sixty ladies. The answer to the second part of the question is in the negative, but a proportion of the local rates on the building is defrayed by the Treasury.