§ MR. WEIR (ROSS and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the Report of the: Inter-Departmental Committee relative to Army schoolmasters, arrangements have yet been made for an adequate supply of teachers for Army schools; will he say whether children attending any of these schools receive denominational instruction; and, if so, will he state how that instruction is controlled.
§ MR. BRODRICKThe provision of an adequate supply of teachers depends on the creation of increased accommodation at the Duke of York's school, which is under consideration. A special examination, however, will be held in December to increase the supply of teachers. As regards the rest of the Question, ministers of any denomination belonging to places of worship to which the troops march on Sundays, or their authorised curates, are at liberty to attend at the school for an hour on one or two days a week to give religious instruction to children of their respective persuasions.