HC Deb 25 April 1944 vol 399 cc618-9
19. Mr. John Dugdale

asked the Secretary of State for War how many native commissioned officers there are in the Armed Forces of the Crown to-day.

Sir J. Grigg

I regret that this information is not available.

Mr. Dugdale

Would it not be possible to obtain it, because I have asked for it already from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and he is unable to give it to me?

Sir J. Grigg

I am afraid I have not got it. I think it would take a very great deal of time and trouble to get it.

Mr. Sorensen

Is it so very difficult to give the number of commissioned and non-commissioned officers in the Colonial Forces?

Sir J. Grigg

It is not only a question of the Colonial Forces. I am not asked that Question. I am asked for the whole Forces of the Crown, and they are spread out in a very large number of theatres of war.

Sir Herbert Williams

Is a Welshman in a Welsh regiment to be regarded as a native?

Mr. Keeling

Or an Englishman in an English regiment?