§ Mr. LAURENCE HARDYasked the Under - Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the offer of Sandhurst cadetships on the nomination of head masters of schools having contingents of the junior division of the Officers Training Corps, the existing differentiation of grants to efficient cadets in State-aided and non-State-aided schools will be abolished, so as to enable all schools to have contingents of the Officers Training Corps on equal terms?
§ Colonel SEELYThe policy of restricting grants to cadets in State-aided schools who are sixteen years of age and over was deliberately adopted by Parliament, and Sub-section (f) of Clause II, Section 2, was accordingly inserted in the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act. There is no intention of asking Parliament to reverse this decision.