§ Mr. WADSWORTHasked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the conditions increasingly imposing laws mainly of an engineering character and of the importance of engineering in the industrial and martial preventative, constructive, and aggressive expression of the whole Empire, he is prepared to consider immediately the introduction of an emergency Bill appointing a chief engineer of the Imperial affairs, in the form of a Minister of Engineering supported by a powerful college or department, whereby he shall be directly responsible to Parliament in the correlation of all matters dealt with by the British professional engineers, forming the essential basis of a greater portion of legislative work, and so bringing the services and responsibilities of these engineers beyond the committee rooms?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI do not think this proposal is feasible.