§ MR. KEARLEY (Devonport)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in connection with his recent inquiries as to the inequality of rents paid by the police in the metropolitan police district, and the decision 488 to allow rent aid in consideration of such, he will consider the case of the metropolitan police employed at Devonport, where rentals are higher than in the metropolitan districts, with a view of extending to them the same system of rent aid.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) The point raised by the hon. Member is receiving attention. The conditions under which the police serve at Devonport and other dockyards are very different from those which prevail in London, but the whole of the circumstances shall be considered before any decision is arrived at.