§ MR. HANBURYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War how many promotions have been made from the ranks to commissions during the last 10 years; and how many of them have been effected with an outfit allowance?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANI presume that the question is not intended to refer to promotion to the ranks of ridingmaster or quartermaster, or as district officers of Artillery, or of the coast battalion of Engineers, all of which carry the outfit allowance without 1606 question. In my reply on March 2 last I stated that in the preceding 10 years 197 promotions had taken place from the ranks to commissions in the Cavalry and Infantry; and that 117 of the officers had received outfit allowance. Since that date 16 more officers have been so promoted, of whom 11 have had outfit allowance.