§ Mr. LOGANasked the Minister of Health if he is aware that on the 22nd instant more than 100 houses and shops were flooded in Litherland, Sea-forth and Bootle owing to the failure of the Rimrose Brook drainage scheme; that in Akenside Street, where a man was 1978W drowned three years ago by a similar flood, the water reached 10 feet high and was 200 yards long; and can he state when the £267,000 agreed drainage scheme is to be commenced?
§ Sir K. WOODI have no official information as to recent flooding at Litherland. I understand that the local authorities concerned in the Rimrose Brook drainage scheme are now in agreement and that application for my consent to the necessary loans will be made at a very early date.