§ Lieutenant-Colonel CAMPIONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Shipping Controller whether he is aware of the number of nurses in this country who came over from the Dominions at the beginning of the War at their own expense, and who have done valuable work in British hospitals; and whether he will provide facilities to transport these women to their own homes at the public expense?
§ Mr. FORSTERI have been asked to reply to this question. I am aware of the valuable work done in British hospitals by nurses who came to the United Kingdom from the Dominions voluntarily and at their own expense. Those who have become members of the nursing branches2572W under the direct control and administration of the War Office have already been provided for in the way of repatriation, and it has recently been arranged to repatriate at the cost of public funds members of certain organisations, not under the direct control of the Department, whose services may have been utilised in military hospitals.