§ Wing-Commander Jamesasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether, having regard to their proved success in the Army and the Royal Air Force, he will institute the system of university commission entry into the Royal Navy?
§ Mr. ShakespeareThere is already a system of university entry into the Royal Marines and the engineer and instructor branches of the Royal Navy. The institution of a system of university commission entry into other branches of the Royal Navy has been considered, but the difficulty is that officers so entered would be very much older when they became lieutenants than officers from Dartmouth or the public school entry.