HC Deb 17 May 1927 vol 206 cc1005-6W
Mr. KIRKWOOD

asked the Secretary of State for War how many times a contractor is permitted to break the Fair Wages Clause before he is struck off the list?

Captain KING

No rigid rule is laid down, each case being considered on its merits.

Mr. KIRKWOOD

asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, how many times a contractor is permitted to break the Fair Wages Clause before he is struck off the list?

Captain HACKING

No contractor is permitted to break the Fair Wages Clause of his contract, but when a contractor has been discovered in a breach of that clause, he is required by the Department to adjust the wages of the men who have been underpaid, and to give an undertaking to pay the correct rates in the future, and the rates paid on any contracts which may be entrusted to him thereafter are subjected to close scrutiny. In the absence of such an undertaking, he is struck off the list and other Departments notified.