§ Sir T. BRAMSDONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty what the duties of the persons shown on page 403 of the Navy List under the Department of the Secretary of the Admiralty and designated welfare staff are: if these appointments are permanent and, if the billets are not filled by active-service ratings, will he consider the possibility of employing active service and pensioner naval ratings in view of the additional efficiency that would result in dealing with naval welfare matters by the employment of such men in possession of technical details affecting welfare requests?
§ Mr. AMMONThe "hon. Member has evidently been misled by the words "welfare staff.'' The two persons re- 345W ferred to are women, whose duties mainly relate to the female staff at the Admiralty headquarter offices, and are not concerned with "naval welfare" at all.