§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the Accountant Generalship of the War Department will shortly become vacant; and whether the Secretary of State will consider the practicability of reorganising the financial control of Army funds by appointing from outside the Department a professional auditor and accountant possessing an actuarial diploma, and not necessarily a present member of the Civil Service?
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Mr. J. POWELL WILLIAMS,) Birmingham, S.The Accountant Generalship will fall vacant next month. A professional auditor and accountant, without knowledge of the Army system, could not satisfactorily discharge all the duties of the Accountant General of the Army. There are already two gentlemen in the War Office who have passed the examination of the Institute of Actuaries.