§ COLONEL BRIDGEMAN (Bolton)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether there is any intention of assimilating the system of conducting the finances of the Army serving in England to that which prevails in India, in which country the actual cost of distributing the pay and auditing the accounts is much more economically done, although the number of the troops is considerably larger?
§ *MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThe Army pay system has been recently reviewed, and the station organization 544 has been adopted with a saving of. £20,000 a year. The conditions of the Army in India, which includes so many native troops, being entirely different from those of the Army at home, it is doubtful whether any advantage would follow from an attempt to assimilate their pay systems so closely as the hon. and gallant Member suggests.