§ COLONEL O'BEIRNEasked the Secretary of State for War, Why the Army Pay Department is the only Department that has not an officer to represent it on the Committee which is now sitting, under the presidency of Colonel Harri- 201 son, R.E., for the purpose of remodelling the equipment and the uniform of the Officers of the Army; and, whether it is a fact that there are now 278 Officers serving in the Army Pay Department?
§ SIR ARTHUR HAYTERSir, there are no Departmental officers on this Standing Committee for remodelling the equipment and uniform of officers of the Army; but if a question affecting a Department be under consideration, the Committee has power to associate with it ad hoc a member of the Department concerned. In reply to the second Question of my hon. and gallant Friend, I have to say that on the 1st of May there were 282 officers serving in the Army Pay Department.