§ MR. FIELDTo ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, if he will explain why the labourers employed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Dublin, are not paid extra duty pay for the time they attend each morning before 9 a.m. to bring coal to the soldiers barrack rooms; and why this duty is not performed by the soldiers themselves.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The work to which my hon. friend refers is part of the ordinary duties of the labourers, and is done during their ordinary working hours. It does not, therefore, fall to the Royal Engineers to carry it out.