§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether he can state the nominal strength of the companies of the Royal Artillery in the Western District; also the actual strength of each company (as well as the number of trained and efficient gunners in each battery or company 941 on the first day of each month of the present year, exclusive of recruits and employed men?
§ MR. BRODRICKIt is undesirable on public grounds to give statistics of the actual strength, or of the number of trained men in particular units or at particular stations.