§ Major RASCH (Essex, S.E.)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is aware that numerous complaints are made by the employés at the Government powder stores at Purfleet, Essex, of insufficient and unsuitable clothing, deficient accom- 1057 modation for changing clothes (according to the Regulations), and overcrowding in the workmen's dwellings; and whether he will take stops to improve the condition of the men serving there in these particulars?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the WAR OFFICE (Mr. Woodall,) HanleyCertain improvements providing for the heating of the apartments in which labourers at Purfleet have to change their clothing are under consideration, but no complaint from the labourers of the nature indicated in the question has come under the notice of the War Department. If the hon. and gallant Member will furnish me with particulars of the representations that have been made to him they shall have duo attention.