§ MR. O. C. PHILIPPS (Pembroke and Haverfordwest)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty what provision 1519 he proposes making for the employment of the 2,000 dockyard men who will be at the Pembroke dockyard after the proposed discharge of 200 in April and May, seeing that the first-class cruise "Warrior" will be completed at Pembroke dock about August, and the first-class cruiser "Defence" will be launched in October next.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) The question of employment of the dockyard men at Pembroke, after the completion of the "Warrior" in 1897, has not been lost sight of. It is not proposed to complete the "Warrior" in August next, as suggested in the hon. Member's Question.