 Woodburn responded that he had previously mentioned the possibility of extending the sum available, but that it would require new legislation to do so.The outworkings of the Act were again raised by Major Simon Ramsay, MP for Forfarshire, on 10 May 1949, when he requested information about how many schemes had benefitted from the Act in Scotland.Woodburn replied that 70 water supply schemes had been started, of which 36 were already completed, and that 68 drainage schemes has been started, of which 44 were complete.