Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Navy – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 22 Ionawr 1947.
Sir Fitzroy Maclean
, Lancaster
12:00,
22 Ionawr 1947
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether his regulations allow men serving sentences in R.N. detention barracks to be made to wear gas masks while doubling.
Mr. Dugdale:
The regulations for the Royal Naval detention quarters neither prescribe nor forbid instructions in gas training. It is an ordinary feature of gas training throughout the Navy to require officers and men to take violent exercise, including doubling, while wearing gas masks, both to familiarise themselves with these conditions and to test the masks. I understand that similar drills are carried out in Naval detention quarters. If, however, the hon. and gallant Member has any reason to believe that this practice is being abused in Royal Naval detention quarters, I shall be glad to investigate the matter.
Sir Fitzroy Maclean
, Lancaster
Can me Parliamentary Secretary saw whether a man's state of health is taken into account before this is done?
Mr Thomas Scollan
, Renfrewshire Western
Would the Minister be prepared to extend this to divers' seaboots as well as gas masks?
Ministers make up the Government and almost all are members of the House of Lords or the House of Commons. There are three main types of Minister. Departmental Ministers are in charge of Government Departments. The Government is divided into different Departments which have responsibilities for different areas. For example the Treasury is in charge of Government spending. Departmental Ministers in the Cabinet are generally called 'Secretary of State' but some have special titles such as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Ministers of State and Junior Ministers assist the ministers in charge of the department. They normally have responsibility for a particular area within the department and are sometimes given a title that reflects this - for example Minister of Transport.
