§ MR. ROWLANDS (Kent, Dartford)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it has been usual for the Metropolitan Police Force, when they have been called upon for extremely exceptional duties, to be granted two or three days extra leave; and whether this course was adopted on each occasion of the Royal Jubilee of 1887 and 1897, and at the time of the visit of the Shah of Persia.
§ MR. GLADSTONEExtra leave was given for the Royal Jubilee of 1887, the visit of the Shah in 1889, and on some other occasions; but the grant of this extra leave involved such dislocation of duty that in recent years, with the exception of the Coronation, when both extra pay and extra leave were given, any recognition of extraordinary duties has taken the form of a grant of pay and not a grant of leave.