§ Mr. Palmerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of the congestion of cases for the Metropolitan magistrates' courts, he will now make arrangements for the re-establishment of a magistrates' court in Westminster as before the war, either in Rochester Row or elsewhere.
§ Sir D. Maxwell FyfeI am considering, in consultation with the chief magistrate, what steps should be taken to relieve the congestion in some of the Metropolitan magistrates' courts. I could not at present give any undertaking to re-establish a court in Westminster.