§ Sir OWEN PHILIPPSasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Shipping Controller what sums were expended from the public funds on the Gravesend School for Sea Training during the first year of its working, from September, 1918, to September, 1919, and during the present financial year, and under what heading in the Estimates such Votes are to be found; what sums were received from the shipowners towards the expenses of the school from September, 1918, to September, 1919, and during the present financial year; whether the gross cost per boy amounted to £6 10s. per month or to a larger figure; whether that sum included any uniform for the period of training or any outfit when the youth was sent to sea; whether there is included in the total cost of working for the first financial year any payment to the Seamen's Home at Gravesend for rent or 1663W the cost of any alterations to the home and any payment for the use of the "Stork," or the cost of the dismantling and re-rigging of that vessel; if so, what sums were so expended, and under what headings in the Estimates are they to be found; what is the total amount of salaries paid to the staff of the school; and what was the largest number of pupils under training at any one time?
§ Colonel L. WILSONI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply to his question on this subject, which was circulated in the OFFICIAL REPORT of 8th December.