§ Sir W. Smithersasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will arrange for the appointment of a comprehensive committee comprised of representatives of the building, contracting and building material industries to examine the proposals in Capital Investment, 1948, and the Economic Survey, 1948, in relation to these industries and report on the effects on the scale of reconstruction originally envisaged in the report on training for the building industry, 1942; and whether any better alternative plan can be adopted to 84W the one proposed by the planning committee.
§ Mr. KeyI have been asked to reply. Comprehensive machinery already exists in my Department for consultation with the building, civil engineering and building materials industries, and the effect of the White Papers has by this means been fully discussed with their representatives.