§ Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in the light of the fact that the Willesden court house cannot cope with the arrears of work due to inadequate accommodation and need 636W for additional staff and that arrears of fines at March 1977 amounted to £213,940, if he will now authorise the building of a new court house on the recently acquired site in High Road, Willesden.
§ Dr. SummerskillYes. This is one of the schemes on which we are about to offer a start—though not primarily for the reasons advanced by my hon. Friend—in 1981–82, the first year in which the additional capital allocations for magistrates' courts buildings, announced in the White Paper on the Government's expenditure plans 1979–80 to 1982–83 (Cmnd. 7439) will enable the resumption of a modest programme of starts on major magistrates' courthouse building schemes.