HC Deb 08 August 1918 vol 109 c1557
104. Mr. R. McNEILL

asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he is aware that the instructions which he issued on the 10th June to Messrs. Hutton and Company with regard to the payment of their workmen employed in the Shorncliffe area have never yet been complied with; and whether he will now give peremptory orders that the prevailing local rates, plus the 12½ per cent. bonus with all arrears, shall be paid forthwith to the men concerned?

Mr. FORSTER

The contractor wrote to the Department on the 1st instant, saying that he was paying the official rate of wages. In view of my hon. Friend's question, I have asked for further information, but it has not yet been received.