§ MR. G. GOOCH (Bath)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he will state how many men have been discharged from the ordnance factories at Woolwich, Enfield, and Waltham, since 1st January, 1908; how many were discharged between the accession to power of the present Government and the end of 1907; and how many were discharged between the end of the South African War and the resignation of the late Government.
§ MR. HALDANEThe figures are as follows:—
§ The figure 154 is made up as follows Men discharged prior to the order to stop discharges on reduction, 12; men discharged from building department and central office to which the 1595 principle of a minimum establishment does not apply, 85; men who left voluntarily, 51; men temporarily employed, 6. I may add that nobody has been discharged recently to whom the statement regarding discharges made some time ago would apply.