§ Dr. ADDISONasked the hon. Member for St. George's-in-the-East, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether he is aware that the chairmaker who made the Chippendale Coronation pattern chair and stool and passed all the chairs at High Wycombe, and worked as foreman at Westminster Abbey preparing for the Coronation, is still not recognised as a chairmaker by the Office of Works, and is receiving less than the trade union rate of pay; and whether he will take steps to secure that this man is paid the proper trade union rate and is secured some recompense in respect of the amount by which the wages which he has received are less than that which he would have received if he had been paid trade union wages?
§ Mr. W. BENNThe Board recognise the man in question as a chairmaker, and he receives the rate of wages generally accepted in London for chairmakers. He did not work as a foreman in Westminster Abbey in preparing for the Coronation.