§ 118. Mr. Teelingasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he will reconsider the decision which he made last year to close the dockyards for the period of the employees two weeks' holiday during the peak of the holiday season, in view of the fact that many holidaymakers, both British and overseas, are thus prevented from visiting the dockyards; and whether, in view of the plea of Britain's holiday resorts for industrial workers and Government officials to be given holidays at other than the peak period of the holiday rush, he will change the dockyard holiday period.
§ Mr. DigbyI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given by my right 127W hon. Friend to the hon. and gallant Member for Portsmouth, West (Brigadier Clarke), on 9th December, 1954, in which he was informed that there would be no closed fortnight in the Royal dockyards in 1955. The times at which most dockyard employees will take their holidays will in consequence be spread over a period of five months, lasting from 1st May to 30th September.