53. Mr. MACLEANasked the First Commissioner of Works whether, seeing that a Scottish Departmental Committee was appointed in 1913 by the then First Commissioner of Works to inquire into the plans of the buildings on the Calton (Edinburgh) site, and that committee in its report recommended that the plans for building on the Calton site should be open to public competition, he will reconsider his decision and adopt that recommendation?
§ The FIRST COMMISSIONER of WORKS (Mr. Lansbury)I have now received the observations of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland on the proposed building scheme for the Calton (Edinburgh) site, and I am at present reconsidering the whole project in the light of their report.
Mr. MACLEANWhen will the right hon. Gentleman be able to give a definite reply as to the decision arrived at, and when may I put down another question?
§ Mr. LANSBURYPerhaps the hon. Member would allow me to give him notice of that when I have had a little more time to consider the matter.