§ 5. Mr. Medlandasked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that the Plymouth Corporation take great exception to the proposal of the Imperial War Graves Commission further to encroach upon the greensward of the Hoe, by erecting quadrant walls carrying tablets upon which are to be inscribed the names of those Service men and women who lost their lives at sea during the last war; if he will give an undertaking that no more walls, monuments or tablets are erected on Plymouth Hoe; and whether he will consider the City Council's alternative scheme for a garden of remembrance.
§ Mr. ShinwellThe Imperial War Graves Commission have before them the adverse views of the Parks and Recreation Committee and the Reconstruction Committee of the Plymouth City Council to the revised proposals for the extension of the 1914–21 Naval Memorial at Plymouth Hoe as one of the Naval Memorials for the 1939–45 War; and the Commission are still in consultation with the City Council. The subject is one for agreement between the Admiralty, the Imperial War Graves Commission and the City Council. Any alternative proposal put forward by the City Council would be fully considered by the Admiralty and the Imperial War Graves Commission, having regard to their responsibilities to the peoples of the Commonwealth.