MR. G. ALLSOPP (Worcester)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War what steps have been taken, or are intended to be taken, to provide military bands to the headquarters of artillery districts at Home stations, at the large artillery garrisons of Malta, Gibraltar, in India., and generally wherever considerable bodies of artillery, mounted or dismounted, are assembled?
* MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANAt Woolwich and Aldershot, whore there are the largest number of mounted batteries, bands already exist. A scheme for providing bands at a few other stations, where a considerable force of Artillery is collected, is at present under consideration. As regards India, the question is one for the Indian Government.