HC Deb 25 May 1894 vol 24 cc1263-4
MR. WEBSTER

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether, as it has been the custom for officers proceeding from India or returning to their duties to occasionally be granted (when there was room) transport accommodation on one of Her Majesty's troopships, and as that service is about to be abolished, the Government, in making contracts for the transmission of troops to and from India by private firms, will take into their consideration the advisa- bility of making arrangements by which officers shall not (when space permits) be deprived of the privilege of obtaining passages on the ships to convey the troops which they have hitherto enjoyed?

* THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. CAMPBELL - BANNERMAN, Stirling, &c.)

Indulgence passages will be granted when there is room in the transports taken up for the Indian Trooping Service of 1894-5 on the same conditions as in the past.