MR. KEIR-HARDIEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the policemen on duty outside the entrances to the Houses of Parliament, including the crossings, have the same allowance as those on duty inside the gates; and, if not, whether he will consider the propriety of granting them such allowance for the future?
§ MR. ASQUITHThe police on duty at the gates and crossings outside the Houses of Parliament receive no extra pay unless they are detained over nine hours, when they get an extra 5s. a day in accordance with the regulations of the Service. This duty differs in no respect from the ordinary divisional work, and is altogether distinct from that performed by the staff attached to the Houses of Parliament.