§ Mr. TYSON WILSONasked the First Commissioner of Works if he will state the rates of pay of the men employed in the lighting and ventilating department of the House of Commons and at the Stationery Office?
Mr. HARCOURTThe scales of pay recently approved are as follows:—Foreman, £3 to £3 5s.; timekeeper, £1 15s. to £2; fitters, £2 to £2 5s.; engineering labourers, £1 7s. to £1 10s.; engineering attendants, £1 6s. to £1 15s.; junior engineering attendants, 18s. to £1 5s.; boys, 9s. to 12s.; stokers, £1 15s. to £1 16s.; wiremen, £1 16s. to £2; firemen, £1 10s. to £1 15s.; turncocks, £1 10s. to £1 15s.; fire-lighters, £1 5s. to £1 10s.; porters, £1 10s.; bricklayer, £1 19s. Some of the men at present employed are in receipt of wages in excess of these scales; future entrants will start at the minimum. In a few cases the men are in receipt of wages below the scale; they will be gradually brought up to scale. I am not responsible for the staff employed at the Stationery Office.