§ 26. Mr. DONALDasked the Secretary for War if the Royal Army Ordnance Corps have recently entered into contracts for laundry work with charitable institution laundries in Ireland in which neither wages nor conditions are in accordance with Clauses 17, 18, and 19 of Contract Form No. 21; and, if so, if he will say whether he is prepared to give instructions that such contracts shall be can celled?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the WAR OFFICE (Mr. Forster)Sixteen contracts in all are held by charitable institutions in Ireland and in fourteen of these cases no commercial firms tendered for the work. The answer to the last part of the question is in the negative.