§ 19. Mr. Wingfield Digbyasked the Minister of Public Building and Works whether he will request the National Building Agency to examine the extent to which the amount of home-produced wood chipboard for flooring applications in building could be increased, with a view to reducing the amount of solid timber at present imported for such purposes.
§ Mr. PrenticeNo. This is not the function of the National Building Agency. I have, however, already asked the Economic Development Committees for Building and Civil Engineering to consider ways of saving imports of building materials, of which timber is the largest single item.