HC Deb 03 February 1966 vol 723 cc273-4W
59. Mr. Pavitt

asked the Minister of Public Building and Works if he will cause to have examined the element in the cost of building hospitals and schools caused by architects' fees, and to have reviewed the system where such fees are fixed as a percentage of the total cost of the project; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Boyden

Fees paid to architects for school and hospital building are in accordance with the Scale of Professional Charges laid down by the Royal Institute of British Architects for building work generally. Proposed changes in the current fee scale are at present under discussion with the R.I.B.A. At the moment no change is proposed in the system by which the fee for normal services is fixed as a percentage of the cost of the work.