§ Mr. CROOKSasked the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that the employés in the India Stores Department, Lambeth, are not yet in receipt of the 12½ per cent. bonus for time-workers already awarded to all other similar employés under Government Departments; and whether he will make immediate inquiries into the matter with a view to authorising payment of the bonus as from 1st January, 1918?
§ Mr. MONTAGUBefore receiving notice of my hon. Friend's question I had caused the necessary inquiries to be made, and sanction has been given to payment of the bonus as from the beginning of the first full pay which followed 1st January, 1918.