§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether there are sufficient men available at Devonport to relieve the naval ratings who have nearly completed 2½ years' foreign service in His Majesty's Ship "Queen Elizabeth," Mediterranean Fleet, and have applied for 14 days' leave; and if he will see that arrangements are made to give these men, a considerable number of whom are married men, the leave to which they are entitled in view of their 2½ years' foreign service?
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§ Mr. AMMONThere are amply sufficient men at Devonport to meet all the foreign service leave requirements of the men referred to. For the period quoted (2½ years), the foreign service leave due would be over a month.