16. Mr. ROBINSONasked the Secretary of State for War, with regard to the housing schemes which he is promoting at Aldershot and elsewhere, whether the work is being done by his Department, His Majesty's Office of Works, or by private contract; if he will state the average cost per house of the non-parlour type and of the parlour type, respectively?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSMarried quarters for Army personnel are as a rule erected under War Department contracts, though in a few cases the work is done by labour directly employed under the Royal Engineers. The conditions under which these quarters are built are generally speaking dissimilar to those obtaining in civilian housing schemes; the type of quarter is not precisely the same as the civilian type, and the prices are therefore not comparable. At Did-cot, for example, where we are building some quarters the cost of a house containing a living room, scullery, and three bedrooms is estimated to cost £530.