Colonel Sir J. HOPEasked the Minister of National Service if he can now give the names of the Committee appointed to consider the staffing of Government Departments in Scotland as regards men of military age; and if he will explain the delay in appointing the Scottish Committee which has taken place since all similar English Committees were appointed?
§ Sir A. GEDDESI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the answer which my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry gave him on Thursday last, but I am happy to be able to add that Lord Dundas has consented to act as Chairman of the Committee. There will be two other representatives of the Ministry of National Service, one of whom will be Mr. D. H. Young Representatives of the several Scottish Departments will also be invited to join the Committee at the appropriate stages of the inquiry.
My hon. and gallant Friend is mistaken in supposing that all the Committees dealing with Government Departments in England have been set up. Most of them are already established, but, owing to the 518W large number of Departments concerned, it was not found possible to hold quite all the inquiries simultaneously.