§ Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that the services of many civilians who entered Devonport Dockyard during the War are being retained, while ex-Service men are being discharged; and whether he will cause investigations to be made into the matter?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAI must refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the answers I gave on Monday last to the hon. and gallant Members for Portsmouth South and for Portsmouth North. Those answers, of which I am sending my hon. and gallant Friend copies, state our general policy in this matter. I repeat the invitation conveyed in the latter answer, namely, that if my hon. and gallant Friend will furnish me with particulars of any cases in which it is considered that the men on whose behalf he puts his question have been unfairly treated, they will be at once investigated.