§ Captain Pluggeasked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the numerous objections which have been made in recent months to the erection of the King George V Memorial on the Abingdon Street site, he can arrange for the committee to publish a letter referring to these objections, and asking whether subscribers would or would not disapprove of a change of site if, on investigation of all the facts, that were found desirable?
§ The Prime MinisterI have been in communication with the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Lord Mayor's Fund. The smaller site which has now been chosen by the Executive Committee, as recently announced in the Press, affords a position and setting for the late King's Memorial which has been described by the Royal Fine Art Commission as unexcelled, and, in the circumstances, I do not think that the Memorial Committee should be asked to adopt my hon. and gallant Friend's suggestion.