§ 84. Mr. Wiggasked the Secretary of State for War in what circumstances the regimental band of the 1st Battalion. Welsh Guards accepted an engagement to play at a soirée to be held in the Junior Carlton Club in aid of the club's General Election fund, which makes grants exclusively to Conservative Party candidates, in contravention of paragraph 1285 (c), Queen's Regulations, 1955, which forbids bands to play at political meetings or entertainments having partisan or controversial aims.
§ Mr. SoamesThe band was invited to provide an orchestra for a dinner at the Junior Carlton Club. The political character of the function was not at first appreciated by the regimental authorities, but as soon as this was realised the engagement was of course cancelled.