§ Mr. Boydenasked the Minister of Public Building and Works what has been the cost to public funds so far of the collapse of the officers' mess building and the enforced demolition of similar buildings at Aldershot; and what is likely to be the total cost to public funds of these building mistakes.
§ Mr. SharplesAs my right hon. Friend said in answer to the hon. Member for Aldershot (Sir E. Errington) on 19th December, 1963, the contractor has accepted responsibility for the failure and has undertaken to reconstruct the buildings without cost to public funds.
§ Mr. Boydenasked the Minister of Public Building and Works what measures he has taken to deal with the consultant architect, the consulting engineer and the contractor responsible for the collapses and enforced demoli- 40W tions of the Aldershot buildings, the first of which collapsed on 21st July, 1963.
§ Mr. SharplesAs the contractor has accepted responsibility for the failure of these buildings and has undertaken to reconstruct them without added cost to public funds we are taking no further measures.
§ Mr. Boydenasked the Minister of Public Building and Works what grade of officer was responsible for supervising the work at Aldershot which collapsed; and on how many occasions the original plans were checked and the actual building inspected.
§ Mr. SharplesSupervision of this work was included in the commission given by the Ministry to a firm of consultant architects, with whom rested the responsibility for checking plans and inspecting the work in progress.