§ Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Minister of Education if she is aware that Scottish candidates who sat for the Forces Preliminary Examination, held at Glasgow University last February, are greatly prejudiced by the 4½ months' delay in announcing the results; and if she will state the cause of this delay and indicate what steps she proposes to take to rectify the loss and injury thereby caused and to enable the candidates to continue their academic careers without loss of priority.
§ Miss WilkinsonI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given on 5th July to the hon. Member for the English Universities (Mr. K. Lindsay) by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War. As regards the last part of the Question, I have no direct means of intervention but I am consulting my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War in the hope that some means of meeting the difficulty may be found.