§ MR. BOWERMANTo ask the Secretary to the Admiralty if he can state the complement of engine-room artificers allowed to each of the gunnery and torpedo establishments for tenders, etc., to the boy artificers training establishments as instructors, and to the submarine services, respectively; what are the numbers now borne; and how, and when, it is proposed to fill the existing vacancies.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) Out of the total number of 248 engine-room artificers allowed to the ships (and establishments enumerated in the hon. Member's Question all are borne except eleven, and these vacancies will be filled as men become available in the ordinary course from foreign service leave, training, etc.