§ Sir R. GOWERasked the First Lord of the Admiralty (1) whether he will consider the desirability of appointing a Departmental Committee to inquire into and report on the remuneration of unestablished men employed in His Majesty's naval dockyards and the desirability of making such employés pensionable on retirement after a given number of years' service;
(2) whether he will consider the desirability of introducing legislation to so amend the Superannuation Acts as to enable him to grant retiring pensions to those unestablished men in His Majesty's naval dockyards who have been continuously employed there for a large number of years?
Mr. ALEXANDERThe Shipbuilding Trade Joint Council for Government Departments and the Industrial Court already provide adequate machinery for the adjustment of the wages of unestablished and established workpeople in His Majesty's dockyards. I am not in a position, at the Admiralty, to initiate legislation for the amendment of the Superannuation Acts, which apply to all Government employés.