§ Mr. THOMAS GRIFFITHSasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that a number of men in the Non-Combatant Corps, stationed at Kilnsea, were sent to a dispersal camp for demobilisation in January last, application having been made in the proper way for their return to civil employment; that these men were not demobilised and had to return to their unit; that they are still being retained, although other men in the unit for whom application had not been made before the 1st February, have been demobilised; and whether he will give instructions that the men who were qualified for demobilisation prior to the 1st February and were not demobilised shall be released without further delay?
Captain GUESTMen in the Non-Combatant Corps were not eligible for demobilisation in January, and I regret no action can be taken in the cases referred to. The Regulations were not made applicable till later, as I informed my hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough on the 11th March.