§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether it is in contemplation to increase the pay of civil surgeons attached to the R.A.M.C.; has he yet decided whether civil surgeons who have completed three years service are to receive an increase in pay on account of such service; do the Army Medical Authorities treat civil surgeons in a manner different to that in which regular members of the R.A.M.C. are treated; and have they relieved captains and lieutenants of orderly duty in stations where civil surgeons do duty; and, if this be so, will he take steps to put an end to the practice, having regard to the fact that captains and lieutenants are subject by regulation to perform orderly duty.
LORD STANLEYIt is not intended to make any increase of pay as suggested. I am not aware that the civil surgeons are treated differently to the Army medical officers, nor of any case in which the latter have been relieved of orderly duty at the expense of the former.