§ 24. Mr. BENNETT-GOLDNEYasked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he will give the names of the qualified architects employed by the Government or the Government of India to prepare the accepted scheme of Town Planning for the New Delhi; whether any of these qualified architects so employed have since been given an order to prepare plans for acceptance for any of the new Imperial buildings in Delhi, and, if so, which; and, if any, whether he can give the estimated approximate cost of each, whether large public buildings or small public buildings?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)The only qualified architect who was a member of the Delhi Town Planning Committee was Mr. E. L. Lutyens. Mr. Lutyens, conjointly with Mr. Herbert Baker, has been given a commission to prepare designs for Government House and two secretarial blocks. The estimated cost cannot at present be given.