§ Mr. Willisasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty to which ratings and branches the instructional allowance, mentioned in paragraph 3 of the Annex to Admiralty Letter N796/46 of 23rd January, 1946, has been granted, the amount of such allowance and the conditions under which it is payable.
Mr. DugdaleInstructor's pay at the rate of 1s. a day is granted to men qualified as instructors in the following subjects: Gunnery, Torpedo, Physical and Recreational Training, Plotting and Radar, Submarine Detection, Visual Signalling, and W/T. Ratings of the Seaman Branch are eligible for the first five categories, and Royal Marines are eligible to become gunnery instructors and P.T. instructors. The visual signals and W/T instructors belong to the Signal and W/T branches respectively.