Lieut.-Colonel J. WARDasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home 474W Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, if he has any information regarding the promised investigation into the conditions existing at the Stoke tax offices, and whether he is aware of the complaint addressed on the 27th November last to the Office of Works by the inspector of taxes, Stoke fourth district, calling attention to the effect of the nuisance of smoke and soot-filled rooms on the efficiency and health of the staff?
§ Captain Viscount CURZONProposals for rehousing the staffs of the tax districts 475W at Stoke-on-Trent are under consideration. Complaints of smoke nuisance in the various districts have been received and, pending the proposed re-housing, oil stoves have been supplied.