§ MR. JESSE COLLINGS (Birmingham, Bordesley)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he will state the number of persons employed at the Enfield Factory and the Sparkbrook Factory respectively on the following dates: 1st August, 1892, 1st January, and 1st July, 1893?
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Mr. WOODALL, Hanley)As my right hon. Friend was informed on March 9, the 1st of August, 1892, was a Bank holiday, but on the previous working day 2,175 persons were employed at Enfield and 714 at Sparkbrook; on January 1 last there were 2,318 persons at Enfield and 736 at Sparkbrook; on July 1, 1,987 at Enfield, 459 at Sparkbrook. I may add 752 that the reduced number of workmen at Sparkbrook are up to the present working full time, while the men at Enfield are on short time.