HL Deb 30 June 1899 vol 73 cc1128-9
* THE EARL OF HARDWICKE

My Lords, I have arranged with the noble Duke, the Lord President of the Council, to postpone the question standing on the Paper in my name, in which I had given notice to ask Her Majesty's Government whether their attention has been called to the action of the London School Board in respect of the site for a proposed school in Bethnal Green, known as the Wood Street site, whereby, although more than twenty houses, occupied by persons belonging to the labouring classes, are taken, the Standing Orders of the House of Lords as to the re-housing of persons displaced are evaded; and, if so, would Her Majesty's Government, in view of the growing seriousness of the overcrowding problem in East London, take steps to prevent such evasion in tho future.