§ MR. STUART-WORTLEY (Sheffield, Hallam)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether a contract for repairs at the Sheffield Barracks has recently been given to a firm not carrying on business in Sheffield, and whether such contract provides for the payment under it of such wages as are generally accepted as current in the trade at Sheffield for competent workmen; and, if so, whether the contract is being complied with in that respect?
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Mr. WOODALL,) HanleyThe repairs at Sheffield are executed under the triennial contract entered into in April, 1891, by the late 493 Government with Messrs. Wilson and Co., of Hulme, Manchester. The contractors undertook to pay the current rate of wages of the district, and we have no reason to suppose that they are failing to do so.