§ Major HORE-BELISHAasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, with reference to the high proportion of established men at the present date as compared with the year 1914, whether he can say to what extent the figures have been swollen, as far as Devonport is concerned, by the partial closing down of Rosyth and Pembroke Dockyards, and the opportunity consequently given to established men from Rosyth and Pembroke to be transferred to Devonport?
§ Mr. HODGESThe number of established workmen transferred from Rosyth and Pembroke to Devonport Dockyard, mainly owing to reductions at the former yards, since the War, is 125.