§ Mr. ALBERYasked the Minister of Transport if up to the present any land has been purchased at or near Dartford with a view to the construction of the Thames Tunnel on the Purfleet-Dartford site?
§ Mr. HERBERT MORRISONCertain lands have been acquired to safeguard the line of approach to any future Lower Thames Tunnel in this neghbourhood.
§ Mr. ALBERYasked the Minister of Transport the nature of the engineering objections to the construction of the Lower Thames tunnel at the Tilbury-Gravesend site; and the date on which the last investigation into the engineering aspect of this matter was made?
§ Mr. HERBERT MORRISONA report was made to my Department by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice on this subject on250W 21st July, 1924. The contents of the report cannot conveniently be summarised in a reply to a Parliamentary question, but I should be happy to give the hon. Member an opportunity of discussing the matter with a technical officer of my Department.