§ Major HORE-BELISHAasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, in order to facilitate promotion, he will entertain the suggestion that ratings be allowed to leave the Service on their accrued pension or on the same terms as the recent reduction scheme provided for, particularly as there are many in the artificer and artisan branches, for instance, who would willingly avail themselves of a favourable opportunity for leaving the Service and thus make way for those junior to them to rise?