MR. HUBERT BUNCOMBE) (Cumberland, Egremont)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War, who is responsible for the frequent and expensive changes in uniform and accoutrements in the Army and Auxiliary Forces; whether any of the pecuniary profit, in the shape of commission or otherwise, consequent on these changes, is shared by anyone except the officers' tailors; and whether he will consider the justice and advisability of making in future a pecuniary grant to officers of all arms as compensation for changes they are compelled to make through no fault of their own?
§ *THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, GuildfordAny changes in officers' uniforms and accoutrements, considered necessary in the interests of the Service are made on the responsibility of the Secretary of State. As in almost all cases they are in the direction of simplicity and economy, and as, whenever practicable, time is allowed for the previous pattern to wear out, no one should be the gainer, but the officer himself.