§ Colonel DAYasked the Minister of Pensions how many discharged ex-service men have applied for, and have been receiving, training?
§ Sir A. STEEL-MAITLANDI have been asked to reply. Since August, 1919, about 99,600 ex-service men have received training under the industrial training scheme of the Ministry of Labour, including those still in training. About 11,000 men were trained under the Ministry of Pensions before that date. No figures are available of the number of applications rejected. Apart from the above scheme, 44,700 men were helped to complete their apprenticeship under the interrupted apprenticeship scheme, 36,300 were trained under the Board of Education, the Scotch Education Department and the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, Ireland, 640 under the Ministry of Agriculture, and 19,700 under the Royal Warrant and Maintenance and Training Grants Scheme of the Appointments Department.