Captain A. EVANSasked the Secretary of State for War what proportion of the 20,000 other ranks who are transferred annually from the Regular Army to the Reserve pass through vocational centres; and how many of these obtained employment within three months of their discharge, in respect of the years 1933, 1934 and 1935?
§ Sir V. WARRENDERThe number of men, transferred annually to the Army Reserve varies in accordance with the recruit intake six or seven years before, and has recently not been so high as my hon. and gallant Friend assumes. During the three years in question the numbers who underwent a course of vocational training were 2,298, 2,608, and 3,095 respectively, and the percentages these figures bore to the total were 12.9, 18.8 and 19.6. The numbers who are known to have obtained employment were 2,017, 2,211 and 2,340 respectively. The great majority of these obtained employment immediately on leaving the centres.