§ MR. RICHARD POWERasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he will take into consideration the advisability of giving the Militia regiments now embodied an assurance of not being disembodied before a definite date, so that the officers and non-commissioned officers may be enabled to make arrangements with regard to the housing of their families, which they cannot do in the present state of uncertainty?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. W. H. SMITH)I am afraid that I can give no such assurance. The duration of the embodiment of the Militia must depend upon political conditions, which I cannot forecast.