§ MR. ANNAN BRYCE (Inverness Burghs)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether, with the view of encouraging local industries, he will consider the question of placing at Inverness contracts for the furnishing of the Militia uniforms required in the Highlands, as has for many years been done by the Admiralty in the case of uniforms required by it for local use.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) Uniforms are not provided specially for the Militia but for the Army generally. Tenders for the supply of material and 1327 the making up of uniforms are open to the whole country. At the present time upwards of thirty contracts for clothing and clothing material are running in Scotland. It would not be practicable to arrange for independent local provision of uniforms for Militia battalions.