asked the Secretary of State for War what facilities for local leave are available to British troops in the Suez Canal Zone other than to the island of Cyprus.

Leave centres for British troops in the Suez Canal Zone exist at Cairo, Suez, Port Fouad, Ismailia and Cyprus. Individuals are also at liberty to make their own arrangements for leave.

In view of the somewhat restricted facilities available, could not some of those camps built by us during the war in the territories of Cyrenaica, the Sudan, Aden and British Somaliland by opened up again as leave centres for these troops?

I should imagine that some of those places are hardly suitable for leave centres.

Is not Alexandria included in the list of leave centres for troops in this area? It has many more attractions to offer than Suez to men overseas.

Apparently it is not in the list I have given.