§ Mr. CAMPBELLasked the Undersecretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether, seeing that his Department has a considerable amount of work available for the relief of unemployment, but is unable to proceed with it because of the usual grant not being forthcoming from the Treasury, and seeing that for the past few years this relief work has absorbed a large number of men temporarily, of whom many have recently been discharged owing to the exhaustion of last year's grant, whereas large grants have been made for similar work in the London County Council and other parks, he will press the Treasury for a continuance of the grant for work in connection with the royal parks?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONThe First Commissioner considers that this matter can only be dealt with as part of the general problem of relieving unemployment, which the Government are dealing 407W with. He cannot press the case for carrying out further works in the Royal Parks at this juncture, in view of the considerable expenditure already incurred on such works.