§ 96. Mr. W. J. Brownasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the plain clothes allowance granted to policemen is half as much again as that granted to prison officers who are required to wear plain clothes; that the representative bodies of both services have made strong representations about the paucity of these allowances; and if he will endeavour to remedy the grievances expressed.
§ Mr. EdeI am glad to be able to say that prison officers will now receive the same plain clothes allowance as the police, less £1 per annum, representing the value of a mackintosh which is supplied in the prison service.