§ Mr. Maclennanasked the Secretary of State for Defence how many Servicemen recruited under the age of 18 years have formally sought release prior to the completion of their period of service in each of the last four years.
§ Mr. BoydenThe discharge of Servicemen is in the main delegated to commands and establishments. It would require an unjustifiable amount of time and304W administrative effort to assemble and analyse this information. The reasons for an application for discharge by an adult serviceman at a particular time may have no necessary relationship, of course, to whether he was recruited before or after the age of 18.