§ Mr. R. YOUNGasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture why the appointed members of the Agricultural Wages Board receive three guineas a day as an allowance for subsistence expenses, etc., while the representatives of the employers and of the workers, for the same number of hours, receive 25s. a day; why for a period of less than five hours 9s. is paid to appointed members and 7s. to the others; wherein do their expenses differ in travelling or subsistence when away from home for more than five hours; and why a fee is not allowed to all members, or vice versâ.
Sir A. BOSCAWENThe scale of allowances for subsistence, etc., sanctioned by the Treasury for members of the Agricultural Wages Board was that adopted for members of Trade Boards. An addition of 25 per cent. was recently made to the allowances for representative members, but not to those of appointed members.