§ CAPTAIN JESSELI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will consider the advisability of abolishing the guard bed, which is a structure of sloping planks with a wooden head-rest in lieu of a pillow, and which is at present in use in guardrooms in the United Kingdom, and substituting barrack cots with coir mattresses and pillows; and whether he is aware that this change has already been carried out in India and China.