§ SIR JOHN COLOMBI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, whether he can state the number of officers and clerks, respectively, employed in the Remount Department of the War Office on each of the following dates, viz.:—1st April, 1st July, and 1st October, 1899, 1st January, 1900, and 1st January of this year.
§ MR. BRODRICKThe numbers are as follows:—
1st April 1899 3 Officers 5 Clerks 1st July, 1899 2 Officers 5 Clerks 1st October, 1899 2 Officers 5 Clerks 1st January, 1900 3 Officers 7 Clerks 1st January, 1902 5 Officers 9 Clerks