§ Captain Kerbyasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what steps she is taking to assist the officers and men who will become redundant on the amalgamation of the 10th with the 11th Hussars; and whether she will appoint a special officer of her Department to look into the scope for redeployment.
§ Mr. FernyhoughThere are already extensive arrangements for the resettlement and retraining of ex-regulars and these are being reviewed to ensure that they are adequate to meet the additional outflow arising from the proposed rundown of the Armed Forces, including any redundancy that may be caused by the amalgamation of the 10th and the 11th Hussars. These arrangements were briefly described in Chapter 10 of the 13W 1968 Statement on Defence Estimates (Cmnd. 3540). Certain officers at the Headquarters and Regional Offices of my Department are already charged with a special responsibility for considering the resettlement needs of ex-regulars and at each employment exchange there is an officer who keeps special oversight of ex-regular resettlement work.