§ Mr. Jannerasked the Lord President of the Council whether, in view of the fact that the Festival of Britain is primarily intended to mark the centenary of the Great Exhibition of 1851, steps can be taken to stage a reproduction on a small scale of the kind of exhibits which were shown in the Exhibition of 1851 in order to emphasise the changes which have taken place during the past hundred years.
§ Mr. H. MorrisonBesides reference to the Great Exhibition of 1851 in the main exhibition of the Festival of Britain on the South Bank, it is hoped that the Victoria and Albert Museum will arrange68W a display of exhibits from the Great Exhibition. Its scope will depend on the financial resources that can be allocated, and no funds will be available for the purchase of additional exhibits. I am confident that arrangements on these lines will adequately represent the Great Exhibition in the Festival of Britain. I would remind my bon. Friend that the object of the Festival is to display the contribution of Britain to civilisation, past, present and future, in the arts, in science and technology and in industrial design, so that its scope will not be confined to a review of past achievements in the past hundred years, but will look forward also to future developments in these fields.