§ MR. SEELY (Lincoln)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that the men of the volunteer service companies are paid only 1s. 1d. a day, while the Yeomanry and Colonial troops are paid at least 5s.; and, seeing that the recruits for the regular army, whose pay is the same as that of the 358 volunteer service companies, have to be kept on the average at least a year at home at a cost of £50 before they are old enough for foreign service, while the volunteers are sent out at once on enlistment whether he will consider the desirability of giving some portion of this saving of £50 a man made by the country to the members of the volunteer service companies as a gratuity.
§ MR. BRODRICKAs I have previously explained to the House, the volunteers serve with the regular infantry, and could not be treated differently to them in respect of pay.