Major Hicks Beachasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer which Ministries are authorised to allot subsistence allowance to workers; and what are the qualifications of workers for this allowance.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterI assume that the hon. Member is referring to industrial workers not directly employed by the 325W Government. The Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries pay allowances, in the following circumstances:
The Ministry of Labour pay lodging allowances to workers transferred to certain important industries if they are married men or men with equivalent responsibilities and have volunteered to work away from home.
The Ministry of Agriculture pay subsistence allowances and lodging allowances to workers employed under arrangements made by County Agricultural Executive Committees, who have been sent temporarily to work in districts away from their homes.
As well as these allowances, settling-in grants are paid by those two Departments.