HC Deb 07 August 1911 vol 29 c778
Major GASTRELL

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the subsistence allowance for Metropolitan police outside the Metropolitan district is at the rate of 4s. 6d. per day for sergeants and 3s. 6d. per day for constables; whether he will explain why all the extra allowance the 2,000 men who were sent to quell the riots in November last have only just received, after continuous applications, is the bare carriage paid for their parcels of laundry and other necessaries; and why they have been informed that they will receive nothing else

The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Churchill)

The ordinary rate of subsistence allowance for Metropolitan police who are employed outside the Metropolitan police district and have to maintain themselves is as stated. As regards the remainder of the question the hon. Member appears to have been misinformed. The men sent to South Wales in November last numbered only about 900, and these men in addition to being lodged and fed, were granted extra allowances on a liberal scale much in excess of the ordinary rates. These allowances have been paid.

Mr. REMNANT

Is the 7s. per day exclusive of the district allowance?

Mr. CHURCHILL

I cannot say; I would rather not answer offhand.

Major GASTRELL

asked whether the Metropolitan police, who were sent to Carnarvon recently in connection with the investure of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, have been promised the full subsistence allowance?

Mr. CHURCHILL

Yes, Sir. In the circumstances which I explained in my reply to a question by the hon. Member for North Islington on 26th July, the full subsistence allowance will be given.