HC Deb 13 June 1901 vol 95 c268
COLONEL SADLER (Middlesbrough)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will consider the desirability of supplying Volunteers with gratuitous ammunition to encourage private shooting practice.

MR. BRODRICK

Artillery and engineer corps are supplied with twenty rounds per man and are not required to fire a compulsory course of musketry. Infantry corps are supplied with ninety rounds, out of which a recruit is obliged to fire forty-nine rounds and a trained Volunteer forty-two, leaving the remainder for private practices, etc. An additional ten rounds may be purchased at £4 per 1,000, and any further supply at £5 per 1,000. The question of whether any further supply is necessary is being considered.