§ MR. LOUGH (Islington, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether, when a man is discharged from one department in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich and is re-engaged in another department, he loses the benefit of the term of his first engagement, which would have helped to entitle him, after three years' service, to medical attendance and part pay whilst sick; and, if this is so, whether he is willing to arrange that all changes from one department to another shall so take place that this serious loss to the workmen will not arise?
§ *MR. WOODALLA workman discharged from the Royal Arsenal on account of scarcity of work or for sickness does not lose the benefit of his service if re-employed within three years in the same or any other department of the Ordnance factories.