§ Commander Maitlandasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the villages of Gipsy Bridge, Boston, Lincolnshire and Bucknall, Lincolnshire, have no water supply other than that which can be collected from the roofs; and what action he is taking to see that these areas of Lincolnshire are provided with an adequate water supply.
§ Mr. BevanThe Horncastle Rural District Council have prepared a comprehensive scheme for the supply of their whole district, including the village of Bucknall. That scheme is now with the county council whose observations on it constitute a necessary preliminary to an application for grant aid under the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act, 1944. In the case of Gipsy Bridge the possibility of securing a supply from a Boston main about a mile away has recently been investigated by the engineers to the Spilsby Rural District Council, the responsible authority, and the Boston Corporation, and terms and estimates are now being prepared. I am in close touch with the councils concerned in these schemes and will treat the schemes when submitted to me as matters of urgency.