§ Mr. KINGasked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that examinations held under the Regulations for entry into the Army and for special entry into the Navy as a naval cadet are intended to admit of candidates for both sitting at one and the same time; that in each case the candidate must be over seventeen and a half years and under eighteen and a half years; that if a boy desires to sit conjointly for the two Services he must satisfy the age requirements of both Army and Navy, but that, as the Army requirements calculate ages as for the days 1st July and 1st December, whereas the Navy, as for the day 1st June, boys born in the month of December are in the position of being unable to sit at the conjoint examinations as frequently as those born in other months of the year; and when he will rectify this difference by securing the Navy and Army examinations held conjointly shall have reference to the same ages in either case?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAMy right hon. Friend has asked me to answer this question. This matter is now under consideration by the Admiralty and the War Office, with a view to assimilating the Navy age limits of entry with those of the Army.