§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works if he can state whether in the building under construction for the accommodation of the War Office staff, consideration bas been given to the advisability of having the clerks in large rooms separated by glass compartments with the head of the Department at one end as is the case in most large business concerns, instead of chiefly in separate rooms as is the case in the building now occupied by the War Office staff.
§ THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (Mr. AKERS DOUGLAS,) Kent, St. Augustine'sAttention has been given, in the preparation of the plans of the new War Office, to the recommendation of the Ridley Commission in favour of the concentration of clerks in larger rooms. This arrangement will be followed where the organisation of the Department renders it possible, a point to be settled by the War Office authorities rather than by me.
§ MR. BARTLEY) (Islington, N.Will the result be that the rooms, after being built large will all be made small, as in the case of another building?
§ MR. AKERS DOUGLASNot if I can help it, Sir.