§ Mr. STEPHENasked the Secretary of State for Scotland on what grounds he sent for further consideration the scheme which the Glasgow Parish Council some time ago submitted for providing employment for the unemployed in a new sewer age and roads scheme at Lennox Castle at a proposed rate of wages of 55s. per week?
Mr. ADAMSONThe scheme to which the hon. Member refers was a scheme of graduated wages from 40s. to 55s. per week, but was not to apply to workers on the relief scheme at Lennox Moor. It was not within my province either to 1743W reject or to endorse specific wage figures which might or might not be in accordance with the recognised union rates, and I suggested that the rates of wages to be paid for work which would normally be done by contract should be arranged with the appropriate trade unions concerned. I also expressed the desire that some places in the scheme should be re served for relief workers whose rate of wages, I hoped, would be raised from 35s., as it then was, to at least £2 per week. I am glad to be able to say that the District Board of Control have seen fit to accept this suggestion.