§ Mr. CARR-GOMMasked the President of the Local Government Board whether 1372W he is aware that the St. John's (Westminster) Improvement Company have not carried out any part of the improvement scheme for which they obtained compulsory powers from Parliament in 1906, although it is now two and a-half years since the Act came into operation; whether he is aware of the bad condition of this property, and of the fact that heavy motor-omnibus traffic is being sent down Marsham-street, the widening of which street is part of the improvement scheme put forward in 1906; and whether he proposes to take any steps to secure a beginning being made in this work, in accordance with the terms of the Act of Parliament sanctioned in 1906?
§ Mr. BURNSI may refer my hon. Friend to the answer which I gave to a question put to me on this subject on 23rd November last by my hon. Friend the Member for the Brixton Division, a copy of which I will send to him. I have no power to take action with a view to secure that a beginning be made in the work.