Major Braithwaiteasked the Minister of Supply the approximate total value and proportion of building and structural work carried out for his Ministry in the United Kingdom during the past five years and controlled by civil or structural engineers acting as the principal co-ordinators.
§ Mr. PeatThe total value of major building works in the United Kingdom (i.e. Royal Ordnance factories, engineering, small arms, filling and explosives, including, when necessary, housing and hostels) executed by the Ministry of Supply between January, 1940, and December, 1944, is approximately £53,000,000. Of this some £31,300,000 is accounted for by works supervised by civil or structural engineers as principal co-ordinators. Since April, 1942, new projects of this kind have as a rule not been carried out directly by the Ministry of Supply but by the Ministry of Works. I regret that, without a disproportionate expenditure of time, it would not be possible to cover in this answer all minor work carried out by the Ministry or those individual works executed for or with the support of the Ministry by its manufacturing contractors or agents.