Colonel THORNEasked the Minister of Munitions whether there are temporary employés working under the Munitions Department for a forty-eight-hour week for £3 while there are men giving voluntary service who are paid £l per day subsistence money; and, if so, will he state how many persons who are supposed to be rendering voluntary service are paid £l per day subsistence allowance?
§ Mr. KELLAWAYThe answer to the first part of the question is, Yes, Sir. There are forty-three persons who receive a subsistence allowance of £1 per day in 667W respect of the voluntary service rendered by them. They are professional and technical assistants holding positions of considerable responsibility, for which the Ministry would normally have to pay salaries much in excess of the allowance named. The temporary employés referred to in the first part of the question are engaged upon purely clerical duties.