asked the President of the Board of Trade what amount of factory space in the. Scottish Development Areas he expects to have completed during 1949.

Subject to unforeseen difficulties and, in some cases, to the amount of work necessary to adapt factories to the essential needs of tenants, it is estimated that since 1945 just under five million square feet of new Government-financed factory building will have been completed in Scotland by the end of 1949. Of this, about 2¼ million square feet will have been completed during 1949. In addition, the adaptation of about four million square feet of ex-R.O.F. and other Government buildings is proceeding, but the greater part of this area is already occupied.