§ 2. Mr. Pitmanasked the Minister of Defence, in view of the fact that it is impossible to establish rigid standards of stability of posting for officers and men in the Services whose children are of school age, whether he will defray from public funds the boarding expenditure necessary for giving continuity of schooling to such children.
§ Mr. SandysI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave to his similar Question on 29th May. At the same time I would remind him that we instituted a system of educational allowances in November, 1955, to help Service parents to defray the cost of sending their children to boarding schools, in the circumstances envisaged in the Question.