§ Mr. JOWETTasked the Secretary to the Treasury, respecting assessments of wages for the payment of Income Tax and the abatements allowed to workers on account of expenses incidental to their employment, such as car or tramway fares, overalls, jackets, and tools, whether such abatements are allowed only to a particular class of workers, namely, munition workers compulsorily transferred away from their homes to take up employment in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Munitions, or whether the abatements in question will apply to all workers who have to meet similar expenses out of their wages?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe allowance in respect of the cost of travelling to and from the place of employment is not restricted to munition workers, but is given in cases in which, owing to exceptional conditions mainly arising out of the War, weekly wage-earners chargeable by quarterly assessment are employed at considerable distances from their homes. As regards the other expenses mentioned, I would refer the hon. Member to a reply given by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in this House on the 12th ultimo to the hon. and gallant Member for West Ham. I am sending him a copy.