§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKEasked whether the Government intend to raise the minimum rate of wages paid to 1689W labourers in the employ of the War Office as from 1st April next; if so, whether he can state to the House what will be the minimum rate of wages paid to these men; and whether he will see that the minimum rate paid to the labourers employed at His Majesty's Gun-wharf, Devonport, is the same as paid to labourers doing similar work at Woolwich, seeing that the cost of living at Devonport is practically the same as the cost of living at Woolwich?
§ Mr. HALDANEI must ask the hon. Member to refer to the reply which I gave to similar questions put by the hon. the junior Member for Leicester and the hon. Member for Deptford on the 9th instant. The latter portion of that reply applies equally to Devonport.