HC Deb 11 August 1904 vol 140 cc230-1
MR. HERBERT SAMUEL (Yorkshire, Cleveland)

I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he will consider the advisability of establishing a Standing Commission or Board, to which might be referred questions of wages and other matters which may be in dispute between any Government Department and the workpeople in its employ.

THE PRIME MINISTER AND FIRST LORD or THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.

The subject is one which has caused great anxiety to this Government and its predecessors, and is likely to cause anxiety to its successors. We cannot discuss it by Question and Answer across the floor, but I admit that the question is a very important one.