§ COLONEL LOCKWOOD (Essex, Epping)To ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he will explain why the policemen of duty outside the cordite buildings at Waltham Abbey receive 1s. per day extra pay, seeing that the workmen inside the building do not meet with the same consideration.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) The rates of pay of members of the Metropolitan Police are fixed by the Home Office for ordinary police duties, and a special allowance of 1s. a day extra is given for exceptional employment. The rates of pay of workmen in this factory are fixed with regard to the circumstances of their employment, so that to give them a special allowance would be to pay them twice over in respect of the same conditions of work.