§ CAPTAIN BAGOT (Westmorland, Kendal)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether a Committee is now sitting to consider how best to carry out all the recommendations of the Committee on War Office decentralisation, as regards the diminution of the correspondence, returns, etc., which go through the War Office, and which have been approved by the Secretary of State; and, if so, when he expects it to Report; and whether any reduction in the clerical staff of the War Office has been made since the Secretary of State approved of the suggestions contained in the Schedule to the Report, or whether any, and, if so, what, reduction is contemplated.
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. WYNDHAM,) DoverA Departmental Committee is inquiring into the civil establishment of the War Office, and I am not able to say how soon it will report. The Committee is, I need not say, taking into account the effects of the measures of decentralisation which have resulted from the Report of Mr. Brodrick's Committee).