§ 11. Mr. Wingfield Digbyasked the Secretary of State for War what was the intake of trained civilian fitters last year; and how many were trained in the same period by War Department apprenticeship schemes.
§ Mr. DigbyIs my hon. Friend aware that I am receiving complaints from my constituency that these trained men are being attracted away by the War Department which is not training sufficient itself to replace them?
§ Mr. KirkWe are training one apprentice to every eight craftsmen, which seems to us a reasonbly satisfactory performance. I do not think that we can be attracting too many trained men away, because we have only the R.E.M.E. workshop at Bovington and there are only 24 apprentices there.