HC Deb 19 May 1893 vol 12 c1370
MR. STUART (Shoreditch, Hoxton)

I beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works what steps he has taken to assimilate the conditions of labour as to hours and wages of the employés in the Royal Parks to those of the employés in the parks under the control of the London County Council?

THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE,) Bradford, Central

Although the labourers in the Royal Parks are not paid at the very high level recently adopted by the London Council for the labourers in their parks, yet it appears, as the result of a recent inquiry, that the terms of employment are better than those given by other employers in London of similar labour. The question whether, under these circumstances, we should raise the minimum rate of wages for ordinary labourers to that of the London Council, is one involving many other Departments of the Government, such as the War Office and the Admiralty, and opens a very wide subject of policy. It is now being considered by a Committee of the Government, in accordance with the statement made by the Secretary of State for War on the Motion raised by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the University of Cambridge.