MR. BOSCAWEN (Kent, Tunbridge)On behalf of the hon. and gallant Member for the Central Division of Sheffield, I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War if, having regard to the fact that numbers of Volunteers are working men needing weekly pay for the support of their families, and that neither the State nor private employers can allow more than fourteen days leave on civil pay, arrangements can be made for Volunteers receiving the allowances granted by the War Office if in camp for fourteen days or over every week during the camp instead of some time afterwards, when the returns and proportion of attendance to strength has been checked.
§ *MR. WYNDHAMUnder Paragraph 24 of the Memorandum of Instructions relating to pay in Volunteer camps, the pay and allowances in question are payable at such intervals as the brigadier or the commanding officer of the unit may direct. The matter is left to corps arrangements. The interpretation put by the hon. and gallant Member on the notification as to leave of Government employees is incorrect. The intention of the Government is to give a special extra leave of fourteen days. This, together with the Volunteers' ordinary holiday which many of them have usually devoted to the Volunteer camps, will in the majority of cases go far to make up a month's time in camp.