HC Deb 22 November 1976 vol 919 cc873-4W
Mr. Viggers

asked the Secretary of State for Defence (1) whether widows of Service men will be given special facilities to see the Review of the Fleet at Gosport in 1977;

(2) whether pre-1950 widows, namely, widows of Service men below the rank of warrant officer class I who retired before 1st September 1950 and who currently receive no Service pension, will be given special facilities to see the Review of the Fleet at Gosport in 1977;

(3) whether retired Service men will be given special facilities to see the Review of the Fleet at Gosport in 1977;

(4) whether disabled people will be given special facilities to see the Review of the Fleet at Gosport in 1977;

(5) whether schoolchildren will be given special facilities to see the Review of the Fleet at Gosport in 1977;

(6) who is responsible for the co-ordination of arrangements for the Review of the Fleet by Her Majesty the Queen at Gosport in 1977;

(7) if he will make a statement on arrangements for the Review of the Fleet at Gosport in 1977.

Mr. Robert C. Brown

My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Navy—the hon. Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. Duffy)—will write to the hon. Member.