§ 60. Mr. Butcherasked the Minister of Agriculture what steps he is taking to ensure that skilled English farm workers, with several years experience, receive higher remuneration than that paid by the War Office for the services of German prisoners with no agricultural experience.
§ Mr. T. WilliamsSkilled farm workers receive at least the appropriate minimum rates laid down by the Agricultural Wages Board and frequently more. The remuneration paid by the War Office to prisoners of war is at the rate of 6d. or 1s. a day, according to the nature of the work.