§ Sir JOHN ROLLESTONasked the hon. Member for St. George's-in-the-East, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether, with reference to his reply last Session that the Government would not at present set back the wall of the St. James's Palace garden in Marlborough Gate, in the meantime he will cause to be made a footway along the side of the wall on the west side for the safety of pedestrians, which would still leave the roadway for vehicular traffic as wide at 1256W the south end as it is at the north end of Marlborough Gate Road?
§ Mr. WEDGWOOD BENNThe First Commissioner has given this matter his careful consideration, but, inasmuch as the bulk of the traffic flows from Marlborough Gate towards Buckingham Gate, a footway along the west wall would not in his opinion, add to the safety of pedestrians, and he sees no reason, therefore, for the present to alter the view expressed in his answer to the hon. Member on the 23rd November last.