12. Mr. TYSON WILSONasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he will cause inquiry to be made into the Sunday working hours of the kitchen staff at the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham, with a view to increasing the staff of trained cooks in order that each one may have one 902 Sunday off in four, without the necessity of employing untrained men or increasing the already long hours of the existing kitchen staff?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAI will make inquiry into the matter; but I would remind my hon. Friend that under the existing arrangements one of the cooks concerned gets two afternoons off each week as well as Sunday afternoons, that two others get two afternoons each week as well as a Sunday afternoon fortnightly, and that the fourth gets a certain amount of time off each week-day afternoon as well as a rather longer period on Sundays.
§ Dr. MACNAMARAPerhaps my hon. Friend will put down that question.
13. Mr. TYSON WILSONasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he has been consulted regarding the scheme which the surgeon-general at the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham, proposes to introduce whereby untrained men from other sections of the hospital are to be placed in the kitchen for Sunday duty with increased working hours and no extra pay, instead of employing qualified men for the position and paying them the recognised rates for a seven-day week on this class of work?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAI understand that a seven-day labourer, paid at seven-day rate, is detailed for labourer's work in the main kitchen on Sundays, as the regular duty man is a six-day man No new scheme has been adopted.