HC Deb 14 July 1879 vol 248 cc299-300
COLONEL ARBUTHNOT

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he has yet considered the Report of the Committee which inquired into the question of the service of Officers under twenty years of age and other matters; if he has arrived at any decision on those points; and, whether he has any objection to lay the Report upon the Table?

COLONEL STANLEY

, in reply, said, he could not state in terms the decision at which the Committee had arrived with respect to this matter. A small Committee had sat, presided over by his hon. Friend the Financial Secretary, and they had drawn up a very able Report. That Report had been put into the form of a Warrant and was now being embodied in a Circular. That was all he could state.