HC Deb 16 November 1911 vol 31 c523
MARQUESS of TULLIBARDINE

asked what percentage the number of infants born during the last three years to married couples on the strength bears to the total number of soldiers above the age of eighteen who have served in the Regular Army at home and abroad during these three years, taking each year separately?

Colonel SEELY

No such statistics of infants are available at the War Office.

MARQUESS of TULLIBARDINE

What figures were furnished to the Treasury before they brought in the Insurance Clause?

Colonel SEELY

We had to make an estimate of the number of infants, but I cannot give details sufficiently accurate to be quite sure that they will satisfy the Noble Lord as to their accuracy in every respect.