§ Mr. Parkerasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he will state the date on which the last requests for improved conditions on the lower deck were received under the 1936 review of service conditions; the total number of requests received; the number for which replies have been announced in Admiralty Fleet Orders; and, as this was to be a more expeditious method of dealing with requests than the biennial welfare conferences, which it replaced, when the remainder of the replies are to be announced, and the final Admiralty Fleet Order issued recapitulating the whole of the decisions?
§ Colonel LlewellinSome 5,000 requests were received, including many repetitions of the same request from different commands. The bulk of these requests have been dealt with by the 1,423 replies which have so far been made. I cannot yet say when the few remaining replies will be issued. The last requests were received in March, 1937. In view of the method of issuing the Admiralty Fleet Orders containing the replies, the issue of an omnibus order is not necessary.