§ MR. JAMES ROWLANDS (Finsbury, E.)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether in April he received a letter from the Secretary of the Military Harness and Accoutrement Makers' Trade Union, calling his attention to an alleged infringement of the Factory Clause in a Government contract; whether he has had the matter investigated; and whether he intends to forward a reply?
§ MR. BRODRICKYes, Sir, the letter was received and duly acknowledged. Under very special circumstances permission was given to an accoutrement maker to have a small portion of the work performed outside his factory on premises subject to Government inspection. I satisfied myself, both at the time and by a subsequent inspection of the premises, that nothing has been done which would be an infringement of the Resolution of the House.