asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will now state the result of the inquiries made into recent happenings at Her Majesty's Prison, Armley, Leeds.

On the coroner's instructions, the police investigated allegations made by a number of prisoners that officers had thrown water into the cell of a prisoner who died in Leeds Prison, wetting him and his bedding. At the adjourned inquest, the police expressed the opinion that the allegations had not been substantiated, and the verdict was death from natural causes.Similar allegations made by six prisoners in petitions to me were investigated, at my request, by the Visiting Committee, who found them to be false and malicious, and to justify a charge against the prisoners under the Prison Rules. The prisoners were placed on report and punished.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the effect of this year's innovation of Trooping the Colour on Saturday, instead of on a week-day, from the point of view of traffic interference; and whether Saturday will now be recognised as the normal day for this ceremony.

My right hon. Friend is informed by the Commissioner of Police that there was less interference with traffic this year than in previous years. It was announced in the London Gazette on 18th April, 1958, that it is proposed to hold the official celebration of The Queen's Birthday annually on a Saturday early in June.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many motor vehicles were removed by the Metropolitan Police for obstructing traffic during the 12 months ended 1st May, 1959; and what is the comparable figure for the 12 months ended 1st May, 1958.

I regret that information is not available in the precise form requested by my hon. and gallant Friend. My right hon. Friend is informed by the Commissioner of Police that during the period from 5th May, 1958, to 3rd May, 1959, 26,081 vehicles were removed from the roads in the Metropolitan Police District under powers conferred by The Removal of Vehicles (England and Wales) Regulations, 1957. During the period from 1st May, 1957 to 4th May, 1958, 9,103 vehicles were removed.

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, how many males have been charged with interference and assault on women and girls in railway compartments during the last 12 months.

I have been asked to reply. I regret that the information for which the hon. Lady asks is not available. The statistics on crime do not indicate the place at which an offence occurs.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements are in force in Pentonville Prison for the issue of handkerchiefs, shirts and socks to the prisoners; and what laundry facilities are provided.

On reception prisoners are given two clean shirts, two clean pairs of socks and one clean handkerchief. Thereafter they receive one clean shirt, one clean pair of socks and one clean handkerchief in the weekly clothing exchange. In addition prisoners may exchange handkerchiefs on three days a week. Prisoners doing dirty jobs may exchange their shirts as the need arises. Laundry is done by outside contract.

asked the Undersecretary of State for Commonwealth Relations if he is aware that African civil servants in the senior service of Basutoland receive a salary equal to three-quarters of that paid to their European colleagues; and what steps he is proposing to alter their conditions.

I would refer the hon. Member to my answer today to a similar Question by the right hon. Member for Rochester and Chatham (Mr. Bottomley) about salaries in Bechuanaland.

asked the Minister of Education whether he is aware that vacancies for teachers at Tamworth, Staffordshire, have not been filled because of the lack of housing accommodation; and what steps he will take to see that accommodation is provided for them.

My right hon. Friend knows of no particular case. The Staffordshire local education authority are very conscious of the housing needs of teachers and have urged local housing authorities in areas short of teachers to do everything possible to find houses for them. I understand that a recent advertisement for posts at schools in Tamworth has included an offer of accommodation provided by the local education authority.

asked the Minister of Education to what extent the plans of his Department take account of the possibility that an increasing proportion of children will stay on at school beyond the terms in which they reach their fifteenth birthdays.

I would refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer my right hon. Friend gave him on 11th June.

asked the Minister of Education what has been the total of Government grants for village halls made to villages in the Leek Parliamentary Division since 1951; and whether he is now prepared to quicken up this important social programme.

Since 1951 my right hon. Friend's grants amount to £2,182 for three projects. Voluntary bodies will continue to be able to apply for grants if they wish to.

asked the Minister of Education on how many occasions action has been taken under Section 105 (3) of the Education Act, 1944; in how many cases a local inquiry has been held; in how many cases the application for a loan has been granted; and in how many cases it has been refused.

In one case, which my right hon. Friend is now considering.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the total number of farms in Leek Parliamentary Division, Stafford shire, the number of those now connected to electricity, and the total of grants made to these farmers to facilitate their connection to the nearest electricity supply.

There are about 3,000 agricultural holdings of over 1 acre in the Leek Parliamentary Division according to the latest agricultural returns, though not all of these will be separate farm businesses. The second part of the hon. Member's Question is a matter for the Midlands Electricity Board which will, I am sure, be glad to provide the hon. Member with the information for which he has asked. As for grants, a total of £116 9s. 6d. has been paid to date under the Farm Improvement Scheme in respect of three farms in the Division, and £894 10s. 0d. under the Hill Farming and Livestock Rearing Acts in respect of another three farms.As regards grants, I would point out to the hon. Member that my Ministry's system is organised on the basis of 32 county or multi-county divisions and that to produce information on any other basis costs a good deal of time and money.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of the grants made under the Agriculture (Improvement of Roads) Act, 1955, to the local authorities in the borough and rural district of Newcastle-under-Lyme; and how many unclassified or unadopted roads have thereby been improved.

None. There are no roads in the Borough or Rural District of Newcastle-under-Lyme which would be eligible. The Act applies only to unclassified or unadopted roads situated in, or affording access to, livestock rearing areas.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the number of farm improvement pro jects approved for grant; what is the total value of the work to be under taken; and what revised estimate he has made of the cost to Government funds in the first two years of the scheme.

By 31st May some 36,970 applications had been approved for grant in England and Wales at a total estimated cost of £25,811,000. The cost to the Exchequer was approximately £2,983,000 for the period up to 31st March this year, and the estimate for the financial year 1959–60 is £4·9 million.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what provision is made for the safety, health and welfare of forestry workers.

Forestry workers are regarded as agricultural workers for the purposes of the Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions) Act, 1956, and enjoy the same protection as is given to agricultural workers under that Act and the Regulations made thereunder.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what provision for joint consultation is made by the Forestry Commissioners.

The Forestry Commission Industrial and Trade Council, which was set up by the Forestry Commission in 1944, provides for joint consultation at national level between the Commission and the trade unions representing the Commission's industrial employees. The Commission also has informal arrangements for consultation with workers and their representatives at local levels.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what amount of subsidy was paid during the last financial year to potato growers for producing potatoes; and what amount was produced.

Owing to the time lag of claims and the different accounting periods of the Government and the Potato Marketing Board, payments in any one financial year do not bear a direct relationship to production.During the financial year 1958–59 a subsidy of £6½ million was charged to my Ministry's Vote in respect of potatoes purchased from the 1956 crop. There were no surplus potatoes from the 1957 crop. Production in the United Kingdom was approximately 7·5 million tons in 1956 and 5·7 million tons in 1957. Final figures for the 1958 crop are not yet available.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the present approximate production of thinnings from forests in the United Kingdom; what estimate has been made of the increase that is likely to occur in such production over the next three decades; and what plans are being made for absorbing such increase by the establishment of suitable industries.

About 26 million hoppus feet of softwood was produced from thinnings in Great Britain in the forest year 1958 by the Forestry Commission and private woodland owners. Production is expected to rise by 1965 to 39 million hoppus feet and by 1975 to 62 million hoppus feet. Estimates for later years have not yet been made. In recent years new processing plants, such as those at Ellesmere Port and Sudbrook, have been set up with the encouragement of the Forestry Commission. In addition the Commission has promoted investigations into the feasibility of establishing additional small-scale pulp mills, wood chipboard and wood fibre building board plants to supplement traditional methods of making use of these supplies. There is already a great deal of interest by industry in the possibilities of such developments. In addition, the Government have impressed on the private woodland owners the desirability of setting up an effective woodland owners organisation which, among other things, would assist in the planning or development of new markets.

asked the Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food what is the preset* acreage of forests planted in the United Kingdom by the Forestry Commission and private owners, respectively; and what is the present target figure for increasing this acreage.

The total forest area at present in Great Britain is estimated at 4 million acres of which 1,300,000 acres are managed by the Forestry Commission and 2,700,000 by private estates. The area of productive plantations within those acreages is estimated at: Forestry Commission 1,200,000 acres, private estates 1,680,000; the balance is made up of areas classified as scrub, devastated and felled.As I announced on 24th July, 1958, the planting programmes of the Forestry Commission are now fixed for periods of ten years. For the five-year period 1959 to 1963 the programme will be about 300,000 acreas and for the period 1964 to 1968, 235,000 acres. The size of future planting programmes will be reviewed in five years' time in the light of the national needs.It is not possible to fix a programme or programmes for planting on private estates. Financial assistance is given to encourage private woodland owners to plant as much as possible and to bring into production all their forest land.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the acreage of woodland in the West Riding of Yorkshire owned by the Forestry Commission.

The Forestry Commission has acquired by purchase or lease 10,461 acres in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will state the amount of the grants made under the Agriculture (Improvement of Roads) Act, 1955, to the local authorities serving the Leek Parliamentary Division, Staffordshire, and how many unclassified or unadopted roads have thereby been improved.

Improvements to rive unclassified roads in the Leek Parliamentary Division have been completed at a cost of £8,322 and grant amounting to £5,409 will be paid shortly. In addition to these, I have approved schemes concerning four unadopted roads at an estimated cost of £7,869 and one unclassified road at £3,247: these will attract grants of £5,902 and £2,110 respectively. The total grant commitment on schemes already approved is therefore £13,421. I have approved all the schemes submitted to me in respect of the area covered by the hon. Member's constituency.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the total amount paid out by the Treasury in subsidies to various industries annually for the past five years; and to what industries they were paid.

For the years 1953 to 1957 inclusive, subsidies to industry (other than agriculture and food), as set out in the National Income Blue Book for 1958, Table 50, to which I would refer the hon. Member for further details, were running at about £8 million a year.

asked the President of the Board of Trade what arrangements his Department have for calling the attention of Canadian and other overseas Commonwealth industrialists wishing to manufacture for sale in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and European markets simultaneously, the possibilities of industrial sites in Great Britain, especially Scotland.

"Make it in Britain", a booklet produced by the Board of Trade, has been distributed in the Commonwealth. It mentions the size of the United Kingdom, Continental and Commonwealth markets, as well as the facilities available under the Distribution of Industry Acts.

asked the President of the Board of Trade how the number of overseas visitors to the United Kingdom so far this year compares with the number in the comparable period of 1958.

As I informed my hon. Friend the Member for Argyll (Mr. M. Noble) in reply to a supplementary question on 16th June, about 7 per cent, more overseas visitors came to the United Kingdom in the first four months of this year than in the corresponding period of 1958.

asked the President of the Board of Trade what arrangements he is making for the fullest consultations with British industries which may be adversely affected by the importation of Russian manufactured goods under the prospective trade agreement.

The Board and other Departments regularly consult industry whose views on this matter will be borne in mind when import quotas are fixed. I am also prepared, of course, to consider any specific representations that may be made by United Kingdom industry.

asked the President of the Board of Trade, in connection with the negotiations relating to the importation into this country of a limited quantity of Russian manufactured goods, what special considerations will be applied to ensure that the protection of United Kingdom anti-dumping legislation will apply to any importations which may be arranged; and what conditions, in particular, will be laid down as to which of the exchange rates for the rouble will be available for importers of the Russian manufactures involved.

The Soviet Ministers assured me in Moscow that it was their wish to sell here in such a way as not to disrupt United Kingdom markets. We for our part made it clear that we could not set aside the provisions of the Customs Duties (Dumping and Subsidies) Act, and that the criteria for considering applications relating to their exports would be the same as in all other cases. As regards the latter part of the Question, the Soviet trading organisations regularly quote sterling prices when they are quoting to British importers.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) whether the Government of Tanganyika has now examined and is in favour of a Northern Province Development Corporation;(2) whether he is now able to make an announcement about proposals for large-scale African wheat farming in the Northern Province of Tanganyika.

I am consulting the Governor and will write to the hon. Member when I have his reply.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is now in a position to make a statement on the results of his discussions on the constitutional future of the Gambia.

I had useful discussions with the Governor of the Gambia and with representatives of all the political parties and the Chiefs. The Governor will now be sending me a dispatch setting out his proposals in detail. I hope in due course to be able to publish this dispatch and my reply to it.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what encouragement is being given by the Government of the Gambia to the development of the tourist industry.

I am consulting the Governor on this and will write to the hon. Member when I have his reply.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what were the results of the experiments conducted by Mr. Ramaswami, the Indian rice expert, on the best types of rice for the Gambia; and to what extent his recommendations have been implemented by the Gambia Government.

I am asking the Governor for details and will write to the hon. Member when I have his reply. I know that the Governor sets a high value on Mr. Ramaswamy's work.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies on what date the Kenya Minister for Defence and Minister for African Affairs approved the proposals of Mr. Cowan for use at Hola.

The proposals were approved by the Minister for Defence on 19th February and by the Minister for African Affairs on 23rd February, subject to ensuring that there were sufficient staff of all ranks at Hola to deal with the situation. There could, therefore, have been no relation between the approval of the proposals and the debate in this House on 24th February.

asked the Secretary of State for Air if he has considered the report of Her Majesty's Inspectors on school accommodation for the children of Royal Air Force parents at Khormaksar and Steamer Point, Aden; and what steps his Department is taking to improve the position.

R.A.F. schools in Aden were, at my right hon. Friend's request, inspected by H.M. Inspectors in February and March. We are awaiting their report.

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether the inquiry into the proposed closing of the Oxford-Bletchley-Cambridge branch railway lines and the objections made thereto will be held by the East Midlands or the East Anglia Transport Users' Consultative Committee; and what are the probable dates of the inquiry.

I understand that no proposal to close this line has yet been put forward, although the London Midland Region have said that they are considering the withdrawal of the passenger services. Any proposal affecting this line would be submitted to the East Midland and the East Anglian Transport Users' Consultative Committees. The arrangements for considering any proposal would be a matter for those Committees.

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if the East Midlands Transport Users' Consultative Committee has now been reappointed or reconstituted; who are the members; and when the new Committee will hold its first meeting.

I have appointed for a further term the Chairman, Professor Peers, and fifteen of the members whose names are given below. I have still to appoint four further members. The Committee will be holding its first meeting in about three weeks' time.

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what provision is made to increase the grant to local authorities where their expenditure is increased as the result of circumstances over which they have no control, such as the paying of increased salaries as the result of national awards.

The total amount of general grant payable each year to local authorities under the Local Government Act, 1958, has by Order been settled for a period of two years. The Act provides, however, that by an amending Order under Section 2 (4) subject to an affirmative Resolution of this House, I can increase the annual aggregate amount of the general grant where any unforeseen increase has taken place in the level of prices, costs or remuneration and its effect on the cost of providing the services covered by the general grant is of such magnitude that I am satisfied that it ought not to fall entirely on local authorities.

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will state the organisations from whom he has received representations, or correspondence, since 1954, asking that action should not be taken in any form or within any limits against air pollution, and the organisations who have asked in any form that the Clean Air Act, 1956, should not be applied.

To the best of my knowledge, none.

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will give, under regional headings, lists of local authorities who have not submitted their proposals under the Clean Air Act, of those who have not acted upon the circular of 26th January, 1959, and of those who have taken no action.

This circular asked that reports should be submitted by 30th June. A list published now of the local authorities who have not yet submitted reports would therefore be misleading.

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what research is being carried out on the Clyde into the development of nuclear reactors for marine propulsion.

A number of firms on Clydeside have undertaken studies related to nuclear propulsion systems.

asked the Minister of Health if he will state the number of student nurses at each of the hospitals in Hull; and what steps the Leeds Regional Hospital Board is taking to improve the recruitment of staff for Sutton Annexe Hospital, Hull.

The numbers on 31st March were:

Hull Royal Infirmary	34
Hull Royal Infirmary (Sutton)	44
Kingston General Hospital	111
Western General Hospital	46
Victoria Children's Hospital	44

The recruitment of nursing staff is primarily the responsibility of the management committee, but among the measures taken by the regional board to assist the Hull "A" Hospital Management Committee are frequent help by the regional nursing officer, including help in the preparation of an assistant nurse training scheme which is now being considered by the management committee; talks to schools and organisations in the Hull area by the board's specially appointed nursing recruitment officer; and visits to schools with a mobile nursing exhibition. An exhibition and nurse recruitment campaign is planned for the city of Hull later this year.

asked the Minister of Health (1) if he will state the reasons why different doctors, with similar surgical cases, are only able to obtain beds at the Sutton Annexe Hospital. Hull, after largely varying delays; what is the number of operations which, in the last year, have been delayed for 2 years, 18, 12, 6 and 3 months, respectively, at this hospital; and what steps he will take forthwith to improve the position concerning serious operations in Hull;(2) if he will state the number of surgical cases awaiting beds for operations in hospital in Hull, and the period of delay likely before admission, for sample cases; and what steps the Leeds Regional Hospital Board intends to take to obviate these delays, by sending surgical cases outside Hull, elsewhere in the region, if necessary.

No separate figures are maintained for this hospital. On 30th April 508 names were on the surgical waiting list maintained by the Hull "A" Hospital Management Committee. Waiting time varies according to the urgency of each case and, subject to that, according to the number of patients referred to each surgeon by local general practitioners. The latter have been notified of the variations, and they are not precluded from referring patients to hospitals outside Hull. Detailed information about probable waiting periods is not centrally available, but I will see what can be obtained from the hospital authorities and write to the hon. and gallant Member. There is no delay in admitting serious cases in urgent need of hospital care.The surgical waiting list has already been reduced by 32 per cent, since 30th April, 1958, and my right hon. and learned Friend relies on the hospital authorities to take all possible steps to secure further reductions. Eventually the major development schemes referred to in the reply given to the hon. and gallant Member on 18th December, 1958, will bring about substantial improvements in the Hull hospital service.

asked the Minister of Health why the death rate among babies in their first week of life is higher in Wales than in any part of England; to what extent this points to deficiencies in pre-natal facilities in Wales; and whether he will make a statement.

The average death rate in infants under one week of age in Wales in 1958 (15·6 per thousand live births) was higher than the average rate in England (13·7). This is because of the relatively high rate in industrial South Wales, which has the majority of the population. The South Wales rates are, however, comparable with those in certain industrial areas in the North of England. The death rate in Wales has in the last ten years fallen more rapidly than in England, and it will be my right hon. and learned Friend's constant endeavour to secure continued improvements in the maternity and child welfare services there, as indeed in England too.

asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that mouth and eye diseases are being caused by the failure to supply gloves to ship painters, particularly where the meal break is short with little opportunity for an effective removal of new and little-known chemicals in paint and anti-fouling compositions from the hands; and if he will consider including in the regulations for shipbuilding and ship-repair, 1959, the requirement that painters should be supplied with gloves by the employers to lessen the dangers of skin disease, as requested by the National Society of Painters.

My Department has no information about serious mouth and eye diseases being contracted by ship painters. The possibility of including a requirement about gloves for painters in the regulations was considered but it was decided that this was not desirable. If the hon. Member knows of cases of the diseases he mentions caused by painters working without gloves, I should be glad if he would let me have details of them so that the matter can be re-examined.

asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware of the dangers resulting from the swinging of long and heavy sticks by painters working on planks, particularly hernia, duodenal ulcer and falls, despite the contention that this had not caused an accident since 1956, and of the strain placed on elderly workers by wielding sticks over 10 feet for long periods; and, if he will consider including in the regulations for shipbuilding and ship-repair, 1959, the requirement that sticks used by painters on ship painting should have a maximum of 10 feet in length.

My Department has no information about cases of hernia, duodenal ulcer, injury through falling or general strain being suffered by ship painters as a result of their using sticks exceeding 10 feet in length. The possibility of including in the regulations a requirement prohibiting the use of long painters' sticks was considered but in the absence of evidence of the dangers referred to in the Question it was decided that such a requirement was unnecessary and would be undesirable. If the hon. Member knows of cases of the kind he refers to, I should be glad if he would send me the details so that I could re-examine the question.

asked the Minister of Labour what consideration the Government have given to methods of avoiding the loss to the nation that takes place due to the fact that in many industries men over 65 and women over 60 years of age, although possessing a lifetime of experience and being physically and mentally capable, are considered incapable of continuing in their normal employment.

Methods of achieving this aim were considered in detail by the National Advisory Committee on the Employment of Older Men and Women set up in 1952. This Committee published two reports containing recommendations which were widely accepted by both sides of industry. I am sending my hon. Friend copies of the reports. Further consultation with industry will take place as necessary through the National Joint Advisory Council, and a small inter-Departmental committee has been set up charged with the task of fostering research into and disseminating information about the employment of older persons.

asked the Paymaster-General if he will now state when adequate supplies of smokeless fuel will be available for all householders who require it; and if he will state the price of smokeless fuel compared to the price

ESTIMATED COST OF CONTINUOUS ROOM HEATING IN LONDON, BIRMINGHAM. GLASGOW AND MANCHESTER
Fuel used			Typical room heating efficiencies	Cost in pence per useful therm
				London	Birmingham	Glasgow	Manchester
			Percentage
Coal (Group 4)	…	…	25–35	29–2	23½–17	24–17	24–17
Coke	…	…	35–45	24–19	21–16	19½–14½	19½–15
"Coalite"	…	…	35–45	27½–21½	24–19	27–21	24½–19
"Rexco"	…	…	35–45	28–21½	25½–19½	29½–23	25–19
"Cleanglow"	…	…	35–45	27–21	—	—	—
"Phimax"	…	…	35–45	—	—	—	24½–19
Notes
1. The appliance used is assumed to be a simple improved open fire, and the room heating efficiencies used for coal and coke are those given in Appendix II of the Ridley Report (Cmd. 8647); efficiencies when burning "Coalite" "Rexco," "Cleanglow" and "Phimax" have been assumed to be the same as those for coke.
2. The cost estimates are based on current fuel prices, which would be somewhat different in other towns, and in the winter months; the relative costs of the different fuels, however, would be much as shown here.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will enter into negotiations with the British Transport Commission, with a view to reviewing their decision to transfer industry from Kilmarnock to Glasgow, in the light of the Government's policy on overspill.

While I have asked the Commission to bear in mind the implications of overspill policy as it may affect their undertakings, I cannot seek to call in question their decisions as regards particular establishments.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total amount of grants and subsidies paid to Scottish agriculture in each of the years from 1955 to 1958, inclusive; what is

Adequate supplies are already available, though not always in the types and qualities which some householders would prefer. Representative costs of providing continuous room heating when using solid smokeless fuels or coal in a simple improved open fire are shown below:the estimated figure for 1959–60; and whether he will itemise such grants and subsidies for the year 1958–59.

The grants and subsidies paid to Scottish agriculture for the financial years 1955–56 to 1957–58 were as follows:

1955–56	…	…	£27·4 million
1956–57	…	…	£34·8 million
1957–58	…	…	£42·5 million

The total for 1958–59 is expected to be about £39 million. It is not yet possible to make an estimate for 1959–60 or to itemise the grants and subsidies for 1958–59, but the items in 1957–58 were as follows:

			£000
Total price subsidies	…	…	(26,663)
Fatstock	…	…	9,522
Cereals	…	…	5,802
Potatoes	…	…	1,900
Milk	…	…	4,894
Eggs	…	…	4,100
Wool	…	…	445

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what long-term hospital building projects in Glasgow are being considered by the Western Regional Hospital Board.

The major hospital building projects in the Western Region which have been approved and are to start building in the near future are Yorkhill Maternity Hospital, the Western Infirmary Radiotherapy Unit and the Glasgow Royal Infirmary Radiotherapy Unit.In addition, the Board are preparing schemes, which will be considered for inclusion in the programme from 1960–65, for maternity units at the David Elder and Samaritan hospitals, a new out-patient, casualty, orthopædic and X-ray block at the Western Infirmary, a new out-patient department at the Victoria Infirmary, a major extension at the Royal Infirmary and a major extension of the Dental Hospital. Other projects at earlier stages of consideration will be considered for inclusion in the programme from 1965 onwards.These schemes are at a preparatory stage only; how and when they will be given effect will, of course, depend on the circumstances ruling when they reach the stage for final decision.