§ MR. PAUL (Edinburgh, S.)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether there is any, and if so what, reason why the hours of work of the attendants at the Edinburgh Museum should not be from 9 to 5, as at South Kensington, instead of 7 to 9 and 10 to 4, as they are now?
§ * THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. ACLAND, York, W.R., Rotherham)The attendants are employed between 7 and 9 o'clock in cleaning the Museum. I am not aware that this has been hitherto a matter of complaint. I fear that any re-arrangement of duties must involve a reduction in the number of attendants at present employed, or a reduction of pay owing to the lessening of hours.