§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, seeing that the Remount Department is now responsible for the purchase of about 20,000 horses a month, whereas prior to the war it was responsible for fewer than 3,000 horses a year, whether he can state what re-organisation in the way of expansion has taken place in the Department since the outbreak of the war, to enable it to cope with the increased demand made upon it.
§ MR. BRODRICKAs I have already stated, the Remount Staff at Headquarters has been gradually increased from two officers and five clerks in 1899, to five officers and nine clerks at the present date. In England nine buyers are employed against two formerly, and abroad thirteen buyers against none formerly. If further assistance had been needed, it would have been given.