66. Miss Cazaletasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that, consequent on the report of the Departmental Committee on Courts of Summary Jurisdiction in the Metropolitan Area, it is proposed in the near future to transfer, inter alia, the whole of the work carried out by the lay justices of the Finsbury division of the county of London, to the Clerkenwell police court; and, as considerable hardship will be borne by a large number of rate defaulters, averaging 1,500, when such defaulters are required to attend the quarterly sittings of the lay justices at Clerkenwell police court instead of the Town Hall, Islington, will he reconsider this matter?
§ Sir S. HoareThe matter is still under consideration, and I am not in a position to make a statement at present.