§ Sir R. Keyesasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he will consider the award of good-conduct badge pay to ratings in the Supplementary Fleet Reserve who are paid on the 1935 rates of pay and who serve a grade lower if chief petty officers and wear good conduct badges, observing that honorary good conduct badges were abolished in 1912?
Mr. CooperI think that my hon. and gallant Friend may be under a misapprehension. Except when a man has reentered after a break in service of more than five years and for that reason is not able to count his former service, men serving in the Reserve Fleet Supplementary Party do receive pay for their good conduct badges.