§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War if he will state the maximum and minimum number of workmen engaged at the Ordnance Factory, Birmingham, during the financial year 1898–9; and will he say how many men 974 are employed in the factory at the present time?
MR. POWELL WILLIAMSThe are as follows:—Maximum number in 1898–9, 461; minimum number in 1898–9, 409; present number employed, 445.