§ 44. Sir R. COOPERasked the Minister of Munitions if he will issue a list of the Members of Parliament and officials now employed in the Ministry of Munitions and the salaries which are being paid to them?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI do not think it necessary to anticipate the normal issue of a list of the staff of the Ministry, but I will endeavour to give the hon. Member any information which he may desire for his own use provided that it can be furnished without an undue amount of labour. Since the formation of the Ministry a number of Members of Parliament have been rendering valuable assistance—some of them working during the whole of the Parliamentary Recess. In addition to these, many others have been giving a good deal of time to the work of the Parliamentary Munitions Committee. None of them are receiving a salary for their work, and I desire to express the thanks of the Ministry for the services they have freely rendered.
§ Sir R. COOPERMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he did not promise the hon. Member for Chertsey (Mr. Macmaster) on the 14th of July that he would issue a list of the officials employed by this Department, and does he now see his way to do that?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEA good many of them are working without salaries at all, but I do not see that there is any objection to issuing such a list. If the hon. Member for Walsall and other hon. Members would like it I will see what I can do.