HC Deb 23 February 1949 vol 461 c300W
Sir W. Darling

asked the Lord President of the Council if any financial provision will be made in Scotland on the lines provided in London for necessary public works in connection with the Festival of Britain, 1951.

Mr. H. Morrison

The nature of the proposals by the Scottish Committee of the Festival of Britain Council do not involve handling traffic, or providing public facilities in excess of existing capacities. Financial provision for public works to extend such facilities does not accordingly arise. I should like to add that a large proportion of the public works being undertaken in London in connection with the Festival of Britain are of permanent value, and a number of them might have been completed or under way already had it not been for the necessity to divert men and materials to making good the widespread damage sustained by London during the war.