§ Mr. GRUNDYasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture whether ho will consider the advisability of establishing a 48-hour week, with cessation of work at noon on Saturdays, for gardeners, labourers, and carters at Kew Gardens, and thus assimilate the conditions there to those in the royal parks and under local borough councils and other employés in the locality?
Sir A. BOSCAWENThe question of establishing a 48-hour week at Kew is under consideration by the Ministry. As, however, this is a matter which the Ministry have in common with the Office of Works, it will require to be dealt with by an inter-departmental meeting, arranged under paragraph 18 of the Constitution of the Department's Whitley Council.