§ Mr. WEDGWOOD BENNasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Port of London Authority has established a receiving house for the immigrants detained under the Aliens Act; whether such a receiving house was promised; and, if it does not exist, whether it is their intention to provide it?
§ Mr. GLADSTONESection 29 of the Port of London Act enacts that the Port of London Authority shall, if required by the Secretary of State, provide the receiving house indicated in the question. Having regard to the small volume of alien traffic which now comes into the Thames, I have not thought it right in the first few months of their existence to call upon the authority to add this item to the many and more urgent duties which the Act imposes on them.