Captain FABERasked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he will state what the total number of men employed in all the dockyards in the British Islands was on 30th November, 1905?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe total number of men employed in the home dockyards on 30th November, 1905, was 27,949, made up as follows:—Portsmouth, 8,640; Devon-port, 7,187; Chatham, 7,017; Sheerness, 1,862; Pembroke, 2,335; Haulbowline, 579; West India Docks, 244; Portland, 85. These figures are exclusive of Works Department men.