§ Mr. GRANTasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he is aware that the rate of payment per week to males temporarily employed upon clerical war work which is of a superior kind to that done by ordinary copyists is £4 or £5 a week, whilst the payment for the same work done by females is between 35s. and £3 a week, that the hours of attendance are at least seven per day, though in respect of the females they are longer; and will he therefore cause inquiry to be made with the view of establishing a more even rate of payment for this work irrespective of the sex of those employed upon if?
Mr. McKINNON WOODI do not know to what class of temporary male employôs my hon. Friend is referring, but I do not think it can be assumed that their work is the same as that of temporary women clerks paid at the rates named. I shall be glad to make inquiries if he will give me details.