§ Mr. R. Morganasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the allowances paid, respectively, to boys directed to work in the coalmines, to civil servants, to evacuated teachers, to mobile workers, to evacuated children and to soldiers quartered on civilians.
§ Mr. Assheton,pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th February, 1944; cols. 339–40, Vol. 379] supplied the following statement:
The Ministry of Labour pay a lodging allowance of 24s. 6d. a week to mobile workers who are transferred to industrial employment away from the home in which they have been living and in which they continue to maintain dependants; to workers without dependants the Ministry pay a settling-in grant which for men is a single payment of 24s. 6d. at the end of the first week's employment, and which for women consists of payments of 25s. for their first week, 20s. for, the second, 15s. for the third and 10s. for the fourth week, unless the women are living in a Government hostel, when these payments are reduced by 5s. per week.
The lodging allowance or settling-in grant is available to any coalmining trainee on the same terms as for industrial workers.
Evacuated teachers are given a free billet, covering accommodation only, or 5s. a week in lieu plus an allowance according to circumstances not exceeding 14s. a week.
Boys directed to work in coalmines, evacuated teachers and mobile workers are billeted for accommodation only. The billetor receives 5s. a week in respect of each billetee.
Evacuated married civil servants who maintain their families at places other than the evacuation towns are given a free billet, covering a bed and two meals a day, or an allowance of a guinea a week in lieu thereof. Unmarried officers are given a free billet for a fortnight but there- 46W after the cost of the billet, a guinea a week, is deducted from their salaries. The Civil Service Billeting Scheme differs in its application in individual cases according to circumstances.
Civil servants are generally billeted for a bed and two meals a day, for which the billetor receives 21s. a week.
The weekly billeting rates for unaccompanied children are:
The rates cover accommodation, attention and all necessary meals.
s. d. Each child under 5 years of age 8 6 where the only child billeted is under 5 years of age the rate is 10 6 Each child over 5 years of age but under 10 years 10 6 Each child over 10 years of age but under 12 years 11 0 Each child over 12 years of age but under 14 years 12 0 Each child over 14 years of age but under 16 years 13 0 Each child over 16 years of age but under 17 years 15 6 Each child over 17 years of age 16 6 Soldiers billeted on civilians are not paid any billeting allowances.
The billeting rates for soldiers vary according to the service provided. The normal weekly payment to the billetor will range from r 6s. 10d. if a billet and four meals a day are provided to £1 9s. 2d. in winter and £1 8s. 0d. in summer if heating, extra lighting, laundry and baths are provided as well.