§ MR. J. WARD (Stoke-on-Trent)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether, in view of the nature of the decisions and sentences of courts martial, the Admiralty Board will consider the advisability of introducing a civil element in the personnel of such courts in the future, with a view to securing public confidence in the administration of martial law in disciplinary offences.
§ (Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) The Board of Admiralty have no power to make the change referred to, which would require an alteration in the Naval Discipline Act.