§ Mr. GRUNDYasked the Secretary of State for Air whether the Parkgate Iron and Steel Works, Messrs. Steel, Peach, and Tozers, of Rotherham, or Messrs. Samuel Fox, of Stockbridge, are engaged upon any work for his Department; if so, whether he is aware that the labourers employed by these firms receive only £1 10s. per week, after stoppages for insurance, etc., whilst the district rate is £2 1s.; that with the fall in the cost of living these men are suffering reductions in wages according to a sliding scale, although they never received the benefit of any scale when the cost of living was rising; and whether he will make inquiries into this matter in order to secure the observance of the Fair Wages Clause?
§ Sir S. HOAREThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. The remaining parts do not, therefore, arise.