§ 30 and 31. Mr. CROOKSasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office (1) whether, in view of the fact that increases of pay, dating back to last December, have been granted to practically all employés in the ordnance factories at Woolwich and Enfield, he can now state if a similar increase is to be granted to the writers employed there; and (2) when a reply may be expected to the application made by the National Union of Clerks, on behalf of the writers at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, for a war bonus; and whether, in the event of the application being granted, the concession will be retrospective to the date of the application being made?
§ Mr. FORSTERThe increases so far given have not applied to clerical staff. The question of an increase to writers raises very complicated questions affecting clerical labour in many Government Departments and is under consideration.