§ Lieut.-Colonel WILLEYasked the Minister of Health if he is aware of a higher scale of pay being in existence to plasterers on Government-sanctioned housing schemes than can be offered by commercial contractors; that this is seriously retarding the completion in various parts of the country of factories and workshops now under construction; and if, in view of the need for facilitating industrial employment, he will cause this anomaly to be removed?
§ Sir A. MONDI am not aware of a higher scale of pay being in existence for plasterers on Government-sanctioned housing schemes than can be offered by commercial contractors, and shall be obliged by particulars of any ease which my hon. and gallant Friend has in mind. The rates of wages paid on housing schemes must be neither more nor less than those applicable to the district concerned.