§ Mr. Hattersleyasked the Minister of State for Defence whether he will make a further statement about the review of the training of Army officers.
§ Mr. G. Johnson SmithA reviewing body, to be known as the Committee on Army Regular Officer Training, has been appointed and will shortly be holding its first meeting.
The Committee will be under the chairmanship of Lieutenant-General Sir Allan Taylor and the members will be Sir Cyril English of the City and Guilds of London Institute, Dr. P. S. Haskell of Portsmouth Polytechnic, the Deputy Under-Secretary of State (Army), the Vice-Adjutant-General and the Director of Army Training.
The Committee's task will be to review, and to make recommendations on, the pattern of officer education and training from first commissioning of the young man of 18 to the staff College graduate of about 37 years of age and will include a review of the pattern of officers' careers.
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JANUARY. 1972—NURSERY SCHOOLS Maintained Direct Grant Recognised Independent Other Independent Local Education Authorities Full-Time Pupils Part-Time Pupils Full-Time Pupils Part-Time Pupils Full-Time Pupils Part-Time Pupils Full-Time Pupils Part-Time Pupils England: Counties Bedfordshire … … 84 140 — — — — 21 20 Berkshire … … … 259 542 — — 34 19 18 77 Buckinghamshire … … 136 944 — — — — 26 22 Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely … … … 97 292 — — — — — — Cheshire … … … 45 28 13 1 — — 16 31 Cornwall … … … 40 — — — — — 48 10 Cumberland … … 90 60 — — — — — — Derbyshire … … … 11 62 — — — — — — Devon … … … — — — — — — 10 16 Dorset … … … — — — — — — 29 — Durham … … … 652 456 — — — — — — Essex … … … 25 212 — — — — 9 69 Gloucestershire … … 32 16 — — 7 41 9 7 Hampshire … … … 32 14 — — — — 106 47 Herefordshire … … 35 — — — — — — — Hertfordshire … … 414 1,376 — — — — 15 — Huntingdon and Peterborough 114 40 — — — — — — Isle of Wight … … — — — — — — — — In view of the wide range of this study I do not expect that the Committee will be in a position to report until about the end of next year.