§ MR. BRAMSDON (Portsmouth)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty if he will state the number of persons to whom pensions and compensations or gratuities respectively were granted or paid in respect of injuries sustained in the royal dockyards during the year 1906, in pursuance of the scheme of compensation certified and adopted under The Compensation Act, 1897; also the total amounts of such pensions and compensations or gratuities; and will he stat; under which Vote they are accounted for.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.)Pensions, compensations, or gratuities were granted to 371 persons. The total amount was £7,935 16s. 3d., which included gratuities. amounting to 324 £2,415 9s. 6d. to the dependants of twelve deceased workmen. These charges were brought to account under Navy Vote 15 Sub-head B. The above figures are in respect of the calendar year 1906.