§ Colonel ENGLANDasked the Secretary of State for War the number of soldiers who have passed through the vocational training centres at Catterick and Hounslow during the past 12 months; whether they have all found employment on their discharge from the Army; and if he can give the percentage of those who found immediate employment in the trade or calling for which they have received training?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSThe number of soldiers who passed through the vocational training centres at Catterick and Hounslow during the past 12 months was 677. Of this number 535 found immediate employment on their discharge from the Army, and of these the percentage who found immediate employment in the trade or calling for which they had received training was 66 per cent. Of the remaining 34 per cent. a considerable number obtained employment in a trade or business allied to the trade in which they had received training.