§ Colonel WOODCOCKasked the hon. Member for Cheltenham, as Chairman of the Kitchen Committee, whether he can give the number of foreigners employed by the Kitchen Committee of the House of Commons and their nationality; and whether the Committee find it impossible to obtain the, services of British subjects to perform the duties now being discharged by foreigners?
§ Sir J. AGG-GARDNERIn reply, I have to say that out of 111 persons in the employ of the Kitchen Committee only eight are of foreign extraction. Of these eight, all but one, rejected on medical grounds, served during the War in the French or Italian Armies. The duties of these eight persons are culinary.