§ 20. Major Sir B. FALLEasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the assistants at Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, are paid the dockyard town rates; and, if not, if he will see to it that such rates be paid from October last, when the Alexandra Hospital came into the borough of Portsmouth?
§ Lieut.-Colonel STANLEYI am in communication with my hon. and gallant Friend regarding the civilian employés at the Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, who are not at present paid dockyard rates of wages. Local inquiries are in progress, and as soon as these inquiries are complete I will communicate further with my hon. and gallant friend.