§ Major NEWMANasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is aware that a bridge, known as Metcalf Road Bridge, on the main road leading from the Great Eastern Railway station to the Royal Small Arms Factory, is in danger of collapse owing to the heavy and extra traffic now imposed on it, and that the collapse of this bridge would seriously interfere with the output of work at the factory; whether he is aware that a short branch line from the Great Eastern railway station at Brimsdown to the Royal Small Arms Factory which would take the greater part of such heavy traffic has been under construction by the Government for more than a year, and, though only a mile in length, is not yet completed; and whether the completion of this line wall be accelerated and extended from the Small Arms Factory to the Powder Factory at Waltham Abbey?
§ Mr. TENNANTThe hon. and gallant Member will realise on reflection that it is not desirable to provide ill-disposed persons with information on these points. In any case, I think the question would be one to be addressed to the Minister of Munitions.