§ 31. Mr. WATTasked the Secretary for Scotland, as President of the Local Government Board, whether he is aware that in connection with the Hairmyres Sanatorium, at East Kilbride, the Middle Ward District Committee are refusing to repay to the contractors advances which they have paid to their workmen under Award 1260, Building Trade, Scotland, so that sums which the contractors were instructed by that award to pay are being withheld from them by the owners of the property; and, if so, will he say whether his Department, under whose authority this building has been erected, sanctions this action?
§ Mr. MUNROThis matter has not been brought to the notice of the Board either by the district committee or by the contractors, though the Board understand that correspondence on the subject has recently passed between the district committee and the contractors. The matter, however, is not one in which I have any authority to interfere.
§ Mr. WATTIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Admiralty took action in 1442 similar circumstances, and will not the Local Government Board for Scotland do the same?
§ Mr. MUNROI cannot answer for the Admiralty. I am quite satisfied that I have no right to intervene.