§ MR. COBB (Warwick, S.E., Rugby)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the members of the Dockyard Police, incorporated with the Metropolitan Police, living in Government quarters are entitled to their quarters free of charge without any deduction being made from their pay in respect of lodgings; and whether this applies to all the members of the Dockyard Police, or to which of them it is confined?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. MATTHEWS,) Birmingham, E.The Metropolitan Police doing duty in dockyards are not entitled to their quarters free of charge; but a weekly deduction according to rank is made from the pay of those for whom quarters are provided. Certain members of the old Dockyard Police who were transferred to the Metropolitan Police in 1860 retained free quarters; but the last of these has now been reported to be unfit for further duty on medical grounds, and his papers have been submitted for pension.