asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether any progress is being made with the revaluation of Dublin, begun over five years ago; and can the Commissioner of Valuation give any approximate estimate of when this long-delayed valuation will be completed?

Considerable progress is being made with the revaluation of Dublin which it is expected will be completed in the course of next year.

asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Report of the Customs and Excise Amalgamation Committee is now complete; and, if so, whether he is in a position to announce the date of its publication?

The Report is now complete, and I hope that it will be ready for issue at the end of next week or the beginning of the following week.

asked the President of the Local Government Board whether, in. view of the fact that the Report of the Commission, on Tuberculosis states definitely that secretions of the cow, such as milk, can communicate tuberculosis to human beings, he will cause inquiry to be made as to whether tuberculosis is not similarly communicable to human beings by means of vaccination with calf lymph?

The matter has already been carefully investigated, and it has been conclusively shown that there is no risk of tuberculosis being communicated to human beings by means of glycerinated calf lymph.

asked for a Return of the quantities of fresh milk imported into this country from abroad, and also of the preserved milk in various forms and their places of origin?

The hon. Member will find full details of such imports during each of the last five years printed on pages 158, 159, and 227 of Volume I. of the Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom for 1910 (Cd. 5699).

asked the hon. Member for Southampton, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, what is the total number of servants, attendants, and labourers employed by the Office of Works in and about the Houses of Parliament; how many are regularly employed all the year round; what is their fixed rate of pay and numbers of hours worked per day; how many are seasonal men; and how many receive retaining fees for the periods when the House is not sitting?

Eighty-five persons are employed directly by the Office of Works, all the year round, in the Houses of Parliament Buildings, at rates of pay which range from 65s. (foremen) to 10s. (boys) per week; and the hours of work average from eight to nine a day. The number of hours worked per day by the Ventilating Staff vary; but the men are given time off in lieu of any overtime which may be occasioned by late sittings of the House. In addition, 159 persons are employed through contractors: working the usual hours of their respective trades, and paid the recognised rates current in the district. There are no seasonal men employed and no retaining fees are paid by the Department.