HC Deb 23 February 1927 vol 202 c1777W
Mr. HORE- BELISHA

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of discharges from each of His Majesty's dockyards for each year from 1923?

Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM

The numbers of workmen discharged on "reduction" frcan the Vote 8 Departments during the calendar years 1924, 1925 and 19241 were as follow:

— 1924. 1925. 1926.
Portsmouth … 19 25 310
Devonport … 151 139 449
Chatham … 2 11 486
Rosyth … 12 409 723
Sheerness … 1 — 50
Pembroke … 5 378 518