§ 55 and 56. Lieut.-Colonel Heneageasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) whether his attention has been called to the difficulties of the rural district councils in Lindsey in obtaining trained instructors in gas training owing to the fact that there are only two schools in the country;
(2) whether he has formed any estimate as to the time it would take to provide gas instruction in each village in Lindsey at the present rate of teaching instructors at the two Government gas-schools; and whether he will consider increasing the number of these schools?
§ The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir Samuel Hoare)I have not received any representations from the Lindsey County Council. As regards the suggestion that there should be an increase in the number of Government gas schools, I would refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by the Under-Secretary of State on 24th March, to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Duddeston (Mr. Simmonds).