§ Sir R. Youngasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he will state the number of engine room artificer candidates for commissions who are qualified educationally and professionally; the number of candidates who this year have appeared before Fleet Selection Boards; where these boards were held and the result; and the number of candidates who are to be promoted to sublieutenant (E) on 1st July?
§ Mr. ShakespeareTen engine room artificers were qualified by examination and age for promotion to commissioned rank; of these eight were recommended and appeared before the recent Fleet Selection Boards. Details of the boards are as follows:
fer to his Department's charge of the banqueting hall in Whitehall, now on lease to the Royal United Service Institution as a museum; and if arrangements have been made to provide in the building to occupy the Montague House and Whitehall Gardens site suitable alternative accommodation, thus taking advantage of the present opportunity of restoring for public use a building of exceptional merit?
§ Mr. RamsbothamThe possibility of obtaining the use of the Banqueting House, Whitehall, and the adjacent property for Government purposes has certainly been under consideration in the past, but no concrete scheme has yet been prepared and no negotiations have taken place with the Royal United Service Institution, or are at the moment in prospect, as to the terms upon which they might give up possession of the premises in question.
2483WIt would not be possible to accommodate the institution in the new building to occupy the Whitehall Gardens site, as it will be wholly required for Government staffs.