§ MR. B. S. STRAUS (Tower Hamlets, Mile End)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether the annual allowance of practice ammunition for recruits and for trained soldiers of the Territorial Army is limited to forty-two rounds per man; whether he is aware that very frequently these forty-two rounds are fired off in one day; and whether he will consider the possibility of permitting a portion of these rounds to be exchanged for rounds of short-range ammunition of equivalent value to be fired at miniature ranges.
738 To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will consider the desirability of granting an allowance of short-range ammunition sufficient to enable Territorials to become efficient riflemen by practising at miniature ranges.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The allowance of ammunition for a man in the Territorial Force is ninety rounds per annum. The number of rounds to be fired off in one day is limited. This allowance may be commuted into miniature cartridge according to a recognised scale. It is considered that this will provide ample opportunity for miniature range practice.