§ Mr. A. Edwardsasked the Minister of Supply whether he will give the names of the members of the advisory committee of production experts which were announced to the deputation he received on the 17th September?
§ Mr. Harold MacmillanI have been asked to reply. The deputation referred to was not received by the Minister of Supply, but by myself as chairman of the Industrial Capacity Committee of the Production Council. One of the recommendations of the deputation was that a panel of production experts should be set up to advise on methods of manu-1052W facture after the design had passed out of the experimental stage. I informed the deputation that the practice so far as the Ministry of Supply was concerned was that designs are constructively criticised by panels representative of the firms undertaking their production, and that these panels were in contact with the chief superintendent of design. I have conveyed to the other Ministries the offer of the Institution of Production Engineers to set up voluntary panels.