HC Deb 27 July 1931 vol 255 c1960W
Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLE

asked the Secretary of State for War why, in view of the Government's withdrawal of the grants formerly made to school cadet units, it is still the practice of his Department to loan firearms to these units?

Mr. SHAW

The hon. Member appears to have been misinformed. Instructions were issued in April, 1930, that all publicly-owned arms on loan to units of the Cadet Force were to be called in, and no firearms have been lent to such units since that date.

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