§ Sir R. BLAIRasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the Bethnal Green Borough Council are raising in the current half-year a rate amounting to approximately £117,000 on the precept of the Bethnal Green Board of Guardians, and that it is the declared intention of the council to pay over to the guardians only £32,000 of the sum thus raised, and to use the remaining £85,000 for purposes wholly unconnected with the, guardians; and whether such application to other purposes of money raised by rate under a guardians' precept is done with his sanction?
§ Sir A. MONDI understand that the guardians have raised from other sources a sum of £85,000 included in their original precept, and that the borough council are in consequence applying for other lawful purposes the balance of the sum raised by them. This action of the council does not require any sanction on my part.