§ SIR SEYMOUR KINGI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, whether married officers of the Indian Staff Corps who come home to attend the Staff College, though allowed personally to rejoin their regiments in India at Government expense, are not entitled to passages for their wives and families; and, whether, seeing that such officers, lose a considerable amount of pay in coming home to attend the Staff College, and that moreover the two years at Camberley involve extra expenditure, the Government of India will consider the advisability of allowing married officers some compensation in the shape of passage money for their families or free passage by troopers when rejoining their regiments in India.
§ LORD G. HAMILTONOfficers of the Indian Staff Corps are not entitled to passages at the public expense for wives and families on joining the Staff College or on return to India after completing the College course, but they are eligible for non-entitled passages in transports where spare accommodation is available. The allowances of officers of the Staff Corps at the Staff College were very considerably increased last year; and I see no sufficient reason at present for any further alteration of the rules in their favour.