§ MR. ASHLEYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War what will be the duration of the annual camp training of the Officers Training Corps; what form the training will take; and what will be the strength of the unit or units which will be trained by one of the officers from the Regular Forces appointed to act as adjutant.
§ MR. HALDANEThe duration of the annual camp training will be eight to fifteen days for University contingents, and eight days for school contingents. Officers commanding University contingents make their own arrangements with General Officers Commanding-in-Chief, and if possible with officers commanding other University contingents. School contingents will join camps formed for the purpose at convenient centres. Regular officers may he appointed under the Officers Training Corps Regulations to command camps, or such units as may be formed for the purpose of training in camp. The training given will be entirely connected with duties in the field. At present adjutants have 862 been, or are about to be, appointed to the contingents of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh Universities, the approximate strength of these contingents being respectively 520, 530, and 390. Adjutants will be appointed to other Universities or groups of Universities, as may be necessary, having regard to the strength of their contingents, their proximity to one another, and the number of public schools in the neighbourhood, in the training of whose contingents adjutants will be called on to assist.
§ MR. ASHLEYWill any considerable expense be placed on the members of this Officers Training Corps?
§ MR. HALDANENo. We have provided all that is necessary, and there will be the same allowance as to the Regulars.