§ SIR HENRY TYLER (Great Yarmouth)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether any, and if so, what steps have been taken towards carrying out the recommendations of the Board of Visitors in regard to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, with a view to the remedy of the various defects which they observed in their inspections in June and July 1886?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)As regards the Royal Military Academy, the provision of increased sleeping accommodation and of hot water for the bath rooms will be proceeded with when funds are available after the completion of more urgent services. No room in Herbert's Hospital can at present be made available as an infectious ward for cadets. As regards Sandhurst, steps have been taken to carry out the recommendations that the Riding School be lit with gas; that better furniture be provided for the cadets' ante-rooms; that windows be added in certain rooms; and that a dressing room be added to the gymnasium. The Racquet Court will be re-roofed early in the next financial year; but funds are not as yet available for building accommodation for the servants on the College estate. Ammunition for voluntary revolver shooting has been issued to the cadets; but it has not been thought necessary to make shooting a part of the course.