§ MR. BRAMSDON (Portsmouth)To ask the Civil Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that the contractors working for the Admiralty in Portsmouth I Dockyard pay their labourers at the rate of about 4½d. per hour, and that such employment is precarious; that the standard rate of wages for similar work in the neighbourhood is 6d. per hour; and whether he will take steps to arrange that the standard rate of wages shall be paid.
§ (Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) I have made inquiries, and find that none of the firms to whom I understand my hon. friend alludes have carried out any work in Portsmouth Dockyard since the beginning of the year.