§ MR. E. H. LAMB (Rochester)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, in
† See Col. 375.981 dealing with the allocation of dockyard work, whether he can see his way to follow the example of the Secretary of State for War in connection with Woolwich Arsenal, and fix a minimum below which the number of workmen employed in His Majesty's dockyard at Chatham shall not fall; and whether he will fix such minimum not lower than the number at present employed.(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) No definite assurance can be given that the present number of men employed at Chatham will be fixed as a future minimum, having regard to the fact that the number must be determined by the varying requirements of the Fleet.