§ Sir L. LYLEasked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the fact that many workers on war munitions were prevented from joining the Army, he will take this fact and their exceptional present unemployment into consideration and give them preference, after ex-service men, on State-aided relief works?
§ Mr. SHAWThe grant-making Departments already have discretion to allow less than the ordinary minimum of 75 per cent. of ex-service men to be employed in special circumstances, and particularly where the number of such men available is not sufficient on account of the fact that large numbers of men in the area were engaged on munitions work during the War. I think this arrangement sufficiently meets the needs of the case.