Mr. TYSON WILSONasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he is aware that Mr. John Abrahams, contractor for keeping clean the southern part of the road encircling Regent's Park, is paying the men employed on the work 18s. per week, while the men employed by the Office of Works to keep the northern part of the road clean are paid 27s., and other men doing similar work in the immediate neighbourhood are receiving 28s. per week; and whether he will take steps to compel this contractor to comply with the Fair-Wages Resolution?
Mr. McKINNON WOODThe contractor to whom the hon. Member refers is, I understand, employed by the Crown Estates Paving Commissioners over whose actions I have no control. I am informed, however, by the Clerk to the Commissioners that a Fair-Wages Clause will be inserted in the next contract for the service in question.