§ Mr. JOWETTasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether, having regard to the fact that the Army Council has issued no Order or Instruction to enforce additional training on Volunteers by means of summer camps on men who have faithfully observed the conditions imposed upon them in regard to the number of drills per week required of them, it is with his consent that the military authorities have ordered the drill stations used by Bradford Volunteers to be closed 638W during the month of August next, thereby precluding the possibility of members of Bradford corps, who are ready and willing to fulfil all the conditions of their exemption, putting in the required number of drills during the month of August, unless they leave their work or their businesses, as the case may be, to attend the summer camp for at least a week, the effect of this action on the part of the military authorities being to impose compulsory attendance at a summer camp by an indirect method; and, if the military authorities have acted without his consent in this matter, whether he will take whatever steps are necessary in order to give members of Volunteer corps the opportunity of fulfilling the conditions imposed upon them by tribunals, as they are prepared to do?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONAttention has already been drawn to this matter, and a report is being obtained. I will acquaint my hon. Friend of the result in due course.