§ 85. Mr. ANDERSONasked the Prime Minister whether arrangements have been completed between the War Council, the Ministry of Munitions, and the Employment Exchanges by which men of a medical classification too low for effective Army purposes, instead of being exempted or returned to civil life, will be entered at the Employment Exchanges in connection with the schema of substitution; whether such a man will be asked to enter a contract that he will remain in the employment of any firm of employers to which he is assigned by the Ministry of Munitions and for any period during the War, and that he will be liable to be returned to military service should this firm cease to employ him; whether a member of the Shoreditch Tribunal, where this scheme was explained by the military representative, said it was industrial conscription but a good arrangement; and whether, having regard to his pledges in this House that the Military Service Acts should not be used, and should not be capable of being used, for any purpose of industrial conscription, he will say what action he proposes to take in the matter?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI have received from the War Office a full statement in answer to this question. It is, I fear, too long to read to the House. I will, therefore, if the hon. Member will allow me, circulate it with the OFFICIAL REPORT. [See Written Answers.]