§ 24. Major Sir BERTRAM FALLEasked the Secretary to the Admiralty if he can make any statement as to the granting of railway facilities and assistance for those men from Northern yards who volunteered for Invergordon to bring their families back to the South now that the press of work in the North has ceased?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAThe men in question have been serving at Invergordon as men lent from their home dockyards, and they have been in receipt of a subsistence allowance besides being provided with single-men's quarters on the supposition that they were living apart from their families. In these circumstances the Admiralty have not been able to see their way to grant railway facilities and assistance to the men in bringing their families back to the dockyard towns.
§ Sir B. FALLEIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that as there is little overtime and not much work, the men are practically tied to this place?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAI do not see how that can be but perhaps the hon. Member will discuss the matter with me.