§ MR. STAVELEY-HILL (Staffordshire, Kingswinford)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty, whether firms located in Great Britain but employing German workmen have been entrusted with work in various dockyards in preference to firms employing only British labour; and whether the foreign workmen have had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the confidential arrangements of dockyards at home and in British Dependencies.
§ MR. MCKENNAI have understood from a private communication from the hon. Member that he refers to a contract at Gibraltar, and I am telegraphing to the dockyard for information as to whether any foreign workmen have had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the confidential arrangements of the yard—or whether any foreign workmen have been employed at all.