§ 18. Sir T. BRAMSDONasked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether in view of the fact that the recent awards 180 and 181, issued on the 10th March last, being decisions arrived at by the Industrial Court between certain trades unions and employers of labour employing workmen in the various classes of work to which the awards apply, are not to be calculated in assessing superannuation allowances as provided under the Superannuation Acts, he will state the reasons for not making these awards part of the substantive rates of pay on which the superannuation allowances are calculated?
§ Sir J. CRAIGThe advance in wages to which my hon. Friend refers has been applied to the workmen in His Majesty's Dockyard in no less advantageous a manner than in the case of workmen in private employment, where, broadly speaking, the question of the calculation of superannuation allowances does not arise. Having regard to the grounds on which the advance has been given, no 1236 adequate reason is seen for making the advance a part of the substantive rate of wages for the calculation of superannuation allowances of the workmen in Admiralty service.