§ MR. HAVELOCK WILSON (Middlesbrough)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that dissatisfaction exists amongst the men of the Royal Navy in consequence of the meagreness of the food scale, dealing with the provisions supplied to men on His Majesty's ships; whether he is aware that the men have to supplement the Navy rations at their own expense; and, seeing that many of the men have to expend as much as 4s. per week to purchase additional food, in consequence of the naval rations as provided by the Admiralty not being sufficient, will he consider the advisability of providing increased rations.
§ (Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) The whole question is at present being comprehensively dealt with by a Committee, in accordance with the undertaking given during the discussion on the Navy Estimates, and all the points mentioned are receiving consideration.