§ Lieut.-Colonel PRYCE-JONESI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether better transport arrangements in connection with camps on Salisbury Plain will be effected by another year, as inconvenience and loss have resulted to Volunteer regiments this summer.
I beg further to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether he is aware of the inadequacy of the provision for Volunteers on Salisbury Plain for washing purposes; and if steps will be taken to remedy this grievance in future.
I beg also to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether he can make 919 any general announcement with regard to the intentions of the Government as regards their future policy towards Volunteers, e.g., respecting regimental camp allowances, brigade camp allowances, pay and allowances to officers and men, capitation and other grants, and minimum and maximum duration, and whether optional or obligatory of camps in future.
§ *MR. WYNDHAMAny changes in the existing regulations and provisions for Volunteers and their camps must necessarily be based on the experience derived from the camps now being held. The information in our possession does not lead to the conclusion that the arrangements made this year have, as the hon. Member supposes, been inadequate; and even if it were possible to frame a scheme before the camp trainings are complete, and to report on them to hand, the proper time for presenting it would be when asking Parliamentary sanction for the Estimates of the year. I need hardly remind my hon. and gallant friend that the arrangements for the camps this year are for this year only.