§ MR. BERTRAM (Hertfordshire, Hitchin)To ask the Secretary of State for War what progress has been made with the scheme for junior and senior officers training units for the Territorial Force; and when a scheme will be approved for the Inns of Court battalion.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) Offers to furnish contingents have been accepted in respect of eight Universities and 103 schools, and contingents of varying strength have actually been formed at these places. Other offers 473 are under consideration or in process of acceptance, and the organisation and training of the corps is being developed as rapidly as possible. As regards the Inns of Court, the scheme for the re-constitution of the battalion as a training unit is now being dealt with.