§ 52. Mr. William Yatesasked the Secretary of State for Defence if, in view of recent troop survival exercises in British Honduras after which three Service men were admitted to hospital, he will give instructions to all units carrying out such exercises that those taking part will carry special emergency rations; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. ReynoldsThis exercise was a jungle patrol exercise planned to last only a few hours, and the men carrying it out had with them a full day's rations and seven water bottles. No new instructions are called for.