§ SIR JOHN BENN (Devonport)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the bricklayers employed under the Director of Works Department at Keyham and Devonport Dockyards at 31s. 6d. per week are doing similar work 1037 to those employed at Portsmouth and Chatham at 34s,; and, if so, will he recommend an advance of wages for such men as are underpaid.
§ (Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) Works Department rates are governed by the rate of wages current in the district. These rates are higher at Chatham and Portsmouth than at Devonport.