§ Mr. R. YOUNGasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware that in the engineering trades 250,231 operatives are out of employment, and that in the Devonport district approximately 450 engineering employés are out of work, of whom 218 are ex-service men; whether, under these circumstances, he is aware of the grave dissatisfaction existing among employed and unemployed workmen at the proposal of the Devon and Cornwall Training Committee to enter some 60 ex-service men in His Majesty's dockyard for training in the engineering trades and 30 for training in 58W the electrical trades; and whether he will discontinue the expenditure on this training, which is unwarranted at the present, time?
§ Commander EYRES-MONSELLProposals of the nature referred to in the-second part of the question were made by the Training Committee, but the Admiral Superintendent informed the committee that it was regretted they could not be entertained. I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of the figures quoted, in the question.