§ MR. BOULNOIS (Marylebone, E.)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he has recently received any complaints of sub-letting of contracts in connection with the Albany Street Barracks and other barrack contracts; and what steps have been taken in connection with them?
§ MR. BRODRICKComplaints as to sub-letting under various barrack contracts were received from the London Building Trades Committee and were inquired into. It was found that at the Albany and Wellington Barracks there was no sub-letting, though the cutting of the arches had, as usual in the trade, been given out as piecework. At Plymouth the contractors for certain buildings had obtained their joinery from subcontractors; but the latter were paid one half-penny per hour above the local rate for the use of their workshop and machinery. The complaints, therefore, appear to have had no foundation.