§ Mr. BENNETT-GOLDNEYasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he will state the number of men in all sections of the Regular Reserve resident, abroad or engaged in a seafaring life on the 1st January, 1912?
§ Colonel SEELYThe numbers amount to 8,230.
§ Mr. BENNETT-GOLDNEYasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he would say, seeing that the shortage of officers, non-commissioned officers, and men in all branches of the Special Reserve on the 1st January, 1912, was officers 1,298 and non-commissioned officers and men 28,393, what was the shortage of officers and of non-commissioned officers and men in the Infantry of the Special Reserve on 1st January, 1912?
§ Colonel SEELYThe figures for Infantry are 1,216 officers, and 13,904 non-commissioned officers and men.
§ Mr. BENNETT-GOLDNEYasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether Category B was included in the figure of 15,175 given by the Under-Secretary of State for War, on 15th November,. 1910, as the number of Special Reservists required for the Expeditionary Force, or whether that number of 15,175 was composed entirely of the Special Contingent, which force has now been merged into the Special Reserve?
§ Colonel SEELYCategory B was included in the figures mentioned.
§ Major ANSTRUTHER-GRAYasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he can state the number of men in the Special Reserve who have not gone through the full course of ball-practice musketry during 1911, and what is the percentage to the total number?
§ Colonel SEELYThe figures are not available at the War Office, but I will procure them and communicate them to the hon. and gallant Gentleman.