§ 36. Mr. Hurdasked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that men in the Royal Engineers Training Unit at Farnborough have been kept waiting for a month before they could do a bricklayer's trade test because no cement was available; and if he has taken steps to ensure that such waste of manpower does not recur.
§ Mr. M. StewartI am satisfied that the normal procedure in trade testing bricklayers in the unit referred to is satisfactory and results in no waste of manpower. I assume that the hon. Member has in mind the particular case of one soldier which recently occurred through a singular set of circumstances which are not likely to be repeated.