§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether his attention has been drawn to the inadequate accommodation for the women piece workers engaged in pressing ill the Royal Army Clothing Department; and whether, seeing that the accommodation is now practically the same for some 1,500 hands as sufficed prior to the present war for about 900, and that consequently delay and disturbance arise, he will take steps to improve the accommodation; and, whether he will consider the advisability of arranging for the weekly payment of the allowance made to this class of workers when shut out through infectious disease, instead of payment in bulk upon return to work, so as to prevent hardship arising from such method of payment.
LORD STANLEYThe number of persons employed on pressing irons before the war was 1,348 and not 900. A new pressing house for twelve additional irons is ready and will shortly be available for use. Persons shut out on account of infectious disease can receive their pay weekly by any authorised intermediary.