§ Mr. GLANVILLEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War what steps, if any, have been taken to release from idleness the 2,000 C3 men, to whose case his attention has been called; and if he is aware that this waste of man-power is repeated in six other depots in London alone?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI am sorry that I am not yet able to reply to the first part of my hon. Friends question, but hope to be able to do so very shortly. Instructions have been issued that no men surplus to military requirements are to be detained at depots.
§ Mr. GLANVILLEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he will instruct that all Civil servants, school teachers, and skilled workmen in essential trades detained at Kingston Barracks as being men in C 3 category shall be released to return to their ordinary occupations?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI am not aware that there are any men of the classes mentioned detained at Kingston Barracks, but I will have inquiries made and inform my hon. Friend of the result.