§ MR. HARMSWORTHTo ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the revision in the dietary scale to take effect next October will be accompanied by improvements in the system of cooking and serving food now in force in the Royal Navy.
(Answered by Mr. Arnold-Forster.) There are three cookery schools for the Navy, one at each of the principal Home ports. Ships' cooks are specially trained at these schools in the best methods of cooking whatever articles are supplied in Navy rations. Improved arrangements have been made for preparing tea, which will enable each mess to prepare its own. Arrangements have been made for improving the method of serving the food by adding knife, fork, basin and plate, and improved spoon to the present scale of seamen's mess utensils.