§ CAPTAIN CRAIG (Down, E.)I beg to ask the Chairman of the Kitchen Committee if he will inform the House the names of the laundries that are employed by his Committee; whether they are State-inspected; and, if so, are trades 727 union rates of wages paid in such laundries.
§ MR. JACOBY (Derbyshire, Mid.)The names of the laundries employed by the Kitchen Committee are Rogers and Cook, Limited, and the Seabrook Laundry Limited. Under the Factory Acts all laundries are State inspected, with the exception of those connected with charitable institutions. I am informed there is no trades union rates of wages, the employees being mostly women.