§ Sir HERBERT NIELDasked the Minister of Labour whether in many instances men who responded to the appeals made at the commencement of the War and enlisted in 1914 and in the first half of 1915 have, after discharge, been compelled, notwithstanding their four years' service, to re-enlist in the Army in order thereby to obtain the maintenance for their families consequent on their failure, after many attempts, to procure civil employment?
§ Sir ROBERT HORNEI have no doubt such cases have occurred, though the Ministry of Labour has no record of them. I may add that, on the basis of the out-of-work donation figures, I estimate that upwards of 87 per cent. of the men discharged or demobilised from His Majesty's Forces have been absorbed into employment of one kind or another. Plans are in active preparation for expediting the absorption of the remainder.