asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the number of motor vehicles imported into Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar, and Tanganyika territory during the year 1925; and what proportion was of British manufacture?

I have not yet received any official information on the subject, but I understand that in the first ten and a-half months of 1925 the motor vehicles imported into Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar and the Tanganyika territory numbered 1,458 cars, 776 lorries, 402 tractors, and 868 cycles. Of the 1,200 motor vehicles imported into Kenya and Uganda in the first six months of the year, nearly 200 were of British manufacture.

asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware of the difference in the terms of loans granted to parish councils, small holdings and allotments, and co-operative societies under the 1925 Allotments Act; and whether he is prepared to see that similar terms are granted?

The terms under which loans from the Public Works Loan Board were made available to enable co-operative societies to acquire land for the provision of allotments were carefully considered when the Act of last Session was before this House. I am not prepared to propose legislation with a view to altering the conditions then decided upon.

asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that, although Treasury approval for the introduction of a new scheme of clerical reorganisation in the War Office out-station offices was promulgated on 24th April, 1925, the clerical staff of the chief inspector, Royal Engineers stores, Woolwich, have not yet been assimilated to the new conditions; and will he give instructions for the scheme to be applied in this office forthwith?

The figures for the new establishment of the Chief Inspector, Royal Engineer Stores, are in an advanced state of preparation.

asked the Secretary of State for War if he will state, in respect of boy training establishments, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and the Staff College, Camberley, respectively, the estimated capital values of land and buildings occupied; the respective annual costs of building maintenance, of educational stores, of provisioning, and of other stores; the annual cost and the numbers of the educational staff; the annual cost and the numbers of the staff other than those engaged on educational or works maintenance duties; the annual cost of any other services; the establishment of personnel under training; and the maximum number under training during the past 12 months?

I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the details of these establishments printed in Head III of the current Army Estimates. If he will let me know in what respects these do not meet his requirements, I will see to what extent they can be supplemented.

asked the Secretary of State for Air if he will state the numbers and salaries of the civilian staff employed at the Air Ministry in the finance, audit and accounting branches; the secretarial branches; and in supervisory duties over both the financial and secretarial branches, respectively?

I am not sure that I apprehend precisely what figures my hon. and gallant Friend wants, but the particulars will be found in great detail in Vote 10 of Air Estimates, with the exception that, in consonance with the Air Ministry organisation, the Secretariat and Finance Divisions are shown together. Of the total staff of 282 shown under that heading, costing £123,156, the Finance Divisions account for 146, costing about £57,000.

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of situations in the Civil Service which at present fall within Category 4 of Schedule B of the Order in Council of 10th January, 1910, the holders of which are thereby exempted from examination by the Civil Service Commissioners; whether any up-to-date list of such appointments is published; if so, where it can be obtained; and, if not, whether he will consider the desirability of causing such a list to be made available?

The number of situations added to, and not since withdrawn from, Schedule B of the relevant Orders in Council is approximately 550. There is no up-to-date list of such situations embodying changes which have been made in the organisation of Departments since the War, but the preparation of such a list is at present under consideration.

asked the Secretary of State for Air the number of officers and men who have been invalided out of the service during the last three years for which records are available suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis; and in how many of these cases the disease has been considered as not attributable to the conditions of service?

The answer to the first part of the question is 92; to the second, 75.