§ MR. WAITasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the equalisation of the gratuities paid to the police on duty at the South Kensington Museum promised by him will be extended to the police on duty at the Houses of Parliament?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, that the arrangement made with regard to the gratuities in question, when the services of the police were required for the civil department of the Government, were that in future they were to be allowed a fixed gratuity of 1s. per day. That was the sum given to all constables employed within the Houses of Parliament. It was not proposed to interfere with the existing arrangement, as the service was entirely voluntary. Under any circumstances, it must rest with the department by whom the services of the police were required to say whether they would give any gratuity or not.