I am afraid that the drastic decline in civil building, due to the shortage of certain materials, the rise in costs, uncertainty as to future requirements and the call upon available capital for war purposes, renders inevitable a corresponding decline in the demand for architects' services, for which the Government building programme cannot compensate. The Departments concerned with building have in the aggregate substantially increased the number of architects in their temporary employment, but I am asking them to consider whether there is any way in which they can make a more extended use to the public advantage of the professional talent which is unemployed.