CAPTAIN AYLMERasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether, seeing that twenty-five regiments are without paymasters owing to the difficulty in inducing Volunteers to serve in the Army Pay Department, he is prepared, with a view to giving confidence to those qualified, to place that department on the same footing as other departments—namely, with one of its own officers at its head to represent it at the War Office?
§ SIR ARTHUR HAYTERSir, in reply to the hon. and gallant Member for Maidstone, I beg to say that the question of representing the Army Pay Department at the War Office by one of its own members has been, with other questions affecting the Pay Department, under the consideration of a Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for War. The Report of the Committee has just been concluded, and will shortly be laid before the Secretary of State for his decision. It would be premature to anticipate his decision on this particular point.