§ Sir W. de FRECEasked the Undersecretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether the is aware that the temporary additional office accommodation provided in April last for the inspector of taxes, Blackpool district, consists of a back room on the second floor of shop premises, that the nine persons working there are overcrowded, that the lavatory accommodation consists of one water closet for the use of eight males and one female of the office staff and is also used by the female staff of a business establishment on the next floor, and that the door to this lavatory is closely adjacent to the one and only entrance to this office; and whether, seeing that these conditions are merely an extension of those obtaining in the main Carter Street premises, he will say when improved accommodation can be provided?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONThe temporary additional office accommodation provided for the inspector of taxes at Blackpool is not unreasonably crowded, but the lavatory accommodation is poor. It is hoped that the extension of the main premises will be completed in six months' time, and it is regretted that, in the meantime, shortage of office accommodation in Blackpool has prevented the provision of more satisfactory temporary arrangements.