MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether in striking the average of time on duty for convict prison warders at nine hours and 15 minutes per day, the 365 days of the year were included; whether clerks and other employés, whose hours are shorter than ordinary prison warders, were also included in the calculation which worked out the average of nine hours and 15 minutes; if so, whether he has any objection to give the average of hours per 1044 day and week, including Sundays, during which convict prison warders in uniform are kept on duty, omitting clerks and other higher grade officials not in uniform?
§ * SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYI think some mistake must have been made by the on. Member. The information I gave him in my two previous answers on this subject was that the daily average all the year round worked out at 9 hours 5 minutes, and that the maximum number of hours worked in any one week was 65 hours 40 minutes, which gives a daily average for that week of (about) 9 hours 23 minutes. In making this calculation, the hours of discipline officers alone were reckoned; those of clerks and other employés were not included.