§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary of State for War if he will state the number of desertions from the respective barracks in Scotland during each year since 1900.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The figures readily available are detailed below. No figures have been given prior to 1902, as any figures for the period of the South African War would cause considerable labour to compile, and would not serve any useful purpose for comparison.
| Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry. | |||||||||||||||||
| Number of desertions from the respective barracks in Scotland, during each year from 1902. | |||||||||||||||||
| Period. | Aberdeen (Castle Hill). | Ayr. | Barry Camp. | Berwick (Infantry). | Edinburgh (Piershill). | Edinburgh (Castle). | Fort George (Albany). | Glasgow (Maryhill). | Glencorse. | Hamilton (Infantry). | Inchkeith Camp. | Inverness (Cameron). | Leith Fort. | Perth (Queen's Barracks). | Stirling (Castle). | Stobs. | Totals. |
| 1st Jan. to 31st Dec. 1902. | 45 | 88 | —; | 89 | 7 | 7 | 17 | 58 | 61 | 82 | 2 | 46 | 14 | 101 | 92 | —; | 709 |
| 1st Jan. to 30th Sept. 1903 | 4 | 22 | —; | 24 | 14 | 50 | 53 | 53 | 30 | 43 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 45 | 24 | 395 |
| 1st Oct. 1903 to 30th Sept. 1904. | 10 | 11 | —; | 11 | 31 | 39 | 19 | 46 | 34 | 54 | —; | 1 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 12 | 298 |
| 1st Oct. 1904 to 30th Sept. 1905. | 12 | 13 | 8 | 19 | 26 | 58 | 19 | 40 | 28 | 43 | —; | 3 | 11 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 303 |
| 71 | 134 | 8 | 143 | 78 | 154 | 108 | 197 | 153 | 222 | 5 | 62 | 43 | 120 | 167 | 40 | 1,705 |