HC Deb 14 June 1910 vol 17 cc1194-5
Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty when he proposes to intimate the decision of the Lords Commissioners with regard to the petitions presented by the employés in the various dockyards during 1909?

Mr. McKENNA

The proposals of the Admiralty have been sent to the Treasury, and we are now waiting for their concurrence.

Mr. A. HENDERSON

Is there no means of expediting the replies to these petitions? I think these were presented last June.

Mr. McKENNA

I am extremely sorry that delay has taken place. The answers to petitions have to go through a great many departments in the Admiralty, and the petitions are all answered at the same time. The result is that we have to wait for the answer to the question which takes the longest amount of time to consider.