§ MR. J.WILLIAMS BENN (Devonport)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether, in view of the official inquiry now proceeding in order to make the wages in the Royal dockyards equal, all things considered, to those which obtain outside, he proposes to make any inquiry, privately or otherwise, into the wages and conditions of the men in the Navy who, owing to the nature of their engagement, do not benefit from the action of trades union organisations.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) There is no analogy between dockyard employment and service in the Royal Navy. From time to time the conditions of service among the various classes of men employed in the Navy are investigated, but no reason is seen for holding any special inquiry at the present time.