§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the hon. Member for Southampton, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, if he is aware that there are a number of professional men engaged in the Office of Works who are termed architectural assistants and who possess certificates of technical efficiency; that some of them are members of the Royal Institute of Architects, Surveyors' Institute, and allied societies; that these men have been employed for many years by the Board of Works but are still not established; and will he consider their claims to be placed on the established list?
Mr. DUDLEY WARDThe answer to the four parts of the hon. Member's question is in the affirmative. With regard, however, to the last section, the First Commissioner is not at all sure that there is any general desire on the part of those gentlemen, who might be considered eligible, to be placed on the established list, with the consequent sacrifice of income which would be demanded by the Regulations.