§ Mr. Gammansasked the First Lord of the Admiralty when the Royal Marine barracks at Plymouth will be modernised and the men provided with lockers for their clothes and other facilities.
§ Mr. AlexanderI am fully aware of the need for modernising the Royal Marine and Royal Naval Barracks but in view of the difficulties in regard to building construction in badly bombed areas, the amount of improvement in the Royal Marine Barracks, Plymouth, to be expected this year, cannot be as great as one would wish. Kit lockers could not be provided under the austerity scales enforced during the war but are now being supplied to Shore Establishments as quickly as possible from ships paid off into reserve.