§ Squadron Leader Burdenasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty how many workpeople at Royal Naval Dockyards in the United Kingdom, exclusive of juveniles and women, receive a weekly wage of £4 15s. or less; and what was the weekly wage paid to workpeople in the same categories at 31st August, 1939.
§ Mr. W. EdwardsOne thousand six hundred and thirty-one workpeople at Royal Naval Dockyards in the United Kingdom receive a regular weekly wage of £4 15s. or less. Overtime, work on payment by results and allowances for exceptional working conditions bring the weekly earnings of about 50 per cent. of this number to more than £4 15s. Work-people whose current wage is £4 15s. would have received £2 15s. a week in August, 1939.