66. Mr. CHANCELLORasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he is aware that soldiers of the Army Service Corps Remounts Department, Shirehampton, who refuse inoculation are being denied the privileges extended to others, including the weekly half-day off and the usual leave; and if he will instruct the officers to discontinue penalising soldiers for the exercise of a legal right, in accordance with his repeated assurances to that effect?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONInquiries have been made, and I find that men who refuse to be inoculated are not in any way restricted from having the usual weekly half-holiday, but, as leave is necessarily limited, and in the interests of the health of the troops, preference is given to those soldiers who have been inoculated.