§ Sir B. FALLEasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether the same facilities for leave and recreation. exist in the Atlantic Fleet as now exist in the Mediterranean Fleet; whether he is aware that the leave allowed per year to the petty officers and men of the Atlantic Fleet is two-thirds smaller than that allowed in the Mediterranean Fleet; and if he will remedy this?
Mr. DAVIDSONThe statement that leave of the Atlantic Fleet is two-thirds smaller than that allowed in the Mediterranean Fleet is not in accordance with fact or with the statement which my hon. and gallant Friend himself made in his question of the 17th June (OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th June, Columns 529-30). The last part of the question does not therefore arise.