§ Mr. DEVLINasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that numbers of men who voluntarily came from overseas to give their services either as soldiers or as munition workers are now perturbed at the failure so far of the War Office to facilitate their return passages to the homes which they left; and whether these men will be provided with berths free of expense at as early a date as possible, in accordance with the promise that they would be accorded every facility and privilege to go to any part of the British Possessions?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLOfficers and other ranks and their families who are entitled to repatriation under the Government scheme are being repatriated as rapidly as the available facilities permit. The shipping situation, which is still far from normal, especially in the case of transport926W for India and the Far East, has caused some unavoidable delay. As regards the-repatriation of onmitions workers, I must refer the hon. Member to my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour.