Architects (Registration) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 8 April 1927.

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Photo of Colonel Josiah Wedgwood Colonel Josiah Wedgwood , Newcastle-under-Lyme

I beg to second the Amendment.

I think we may be quite certain that this Bill is favourable to the architectural profession and is in the interests of that profession; but what we have to consider is whether the Bill is in the public interest. Hitherto we have had the architects' point of view put before the House just as in times past we have had the points of view of other middle-class professions put forward when they were seeking to secure similar privileges. The dental surgeons got a similar Bill through the House by urging that in the public interest only licensed and certified dentists should practise. We know that the result of that has been that the dental profession is closed to working-class people. [HON. MEMBERS: "No!"] It casts now £1,000 to get the education necessary to pass the examination into that profession.