§ MR. BELLAIRSTo ask the Secretary to the Admiralty what has been approximately the maximum and minimum number of men employed in the Royal Dockyards since 1900, inclusive; and what is the approximate number contemplated by the Admiralty at the conclusion of the present financial year; or, if this figure cannot be given, whether he can state the number now employed.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) The maximum number of men employed since 1900 is 35,676, and the minimum 27,000, which is the number borne at the present time the numbers to be borne at the end of the year have not been determined.