HC Deb 27 April 1964 vol 694 cc17-8W
68. Mr. Temple

asked the Minister of Public Building and Works whether he has yet received the Report of the Committee on the Placing and Management of Contracts for Building and Civil Engineering Work; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Rippon

The Committee's report will be on sale tomorrow but copies are now available in the Vote Office. I should like to record my thanks to Sir Harold Banwell and his colleagues for their valuable report.

I have studied together the reports of this Committee and of the Working Party on Building and Civil Engineering Procedure in Scotland, which was published in February. While there are proposals which will require consultation with the interests concerned, the Government is in general agreement with the main lines of both reports.