§ 46. Mr. HOHLERasked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the fact that £268,000 is voted annually to 670 Members of Parliament and that the entire estimated increase of pay granted to the 137,500 officers and men serving in His Majesty's Navy amounts to only £386,743, he would consider the property of reducing those salaries with a view to dealing more 1916 generously with the petitions of the naval shipwrights and armourers for increased pay?
§ The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Asquith)The answer is in the negative.