§ DR THOMPSON (Monaghan, N.)To ask the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that the captains of the Royal Army Medical Corps now attending a professional course in London, and residing at the temporary college in the Hotel Belgravia, receive an allowance at the rate of 5s. 6d., although lieutenants on probation receive an allowance at the rate of 9s.; and if he will give directions to remove this difference.
681 (Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) Lieutenants on probation receive allowances for servants, lodgings, and fuel and light, amounting to about 4s., and also draw a mess allowance of 4s. Captains draw the former class of allowances, amounting to about 5s. The question of the grant of the 4s. mess allowance to them is under consideration.