Mr. TYSON WILSONasked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that Mr. MacAndrew, the contractor for the erection of the Redford Infantry barracks, Edinburgh, has sublet a considerable amount of the work to a firm that is paying from 6s. to 8s. per week less than the rate current in Edinburgh; whether this sub-contractor's name was submitted to the War Office for approval before the work was given to it; and whether such approval was given?
§ Colonel SEELYWith the prior permission of the War Office a portion of the joinery work in connection with the Infantry barracks at Redford is being 607W executed by a sub-contractor at Bo'ness. I have no information as to the wages paid by the sub-contractor, but I will have inquiries made.