§ COLONEL LOCKWOOD (Essex, Epping)To ask the Secretary of State for War, whether the men in the Government employ at the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey and the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield, who recently attended the volunteer camp of the Bedfordshire Brigade, were stopped their week's pay in consequence of their so doing; and, if so, whether he will give an undertaking that, in future, these men shall have made good to them the deficiency between their week's pay and their camp allowance, 10s. 2d.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The pay of men employed in the Ordnance factories attending Volunteer camps is stopped during the period of their absence from work, unless they are entitled to leave with pay and can arrange to take such leave while at the camps. It must be remembered that on an emergency the services of these men would be far more urgently required in the factories than as Volunteers.