§ SIR FORTESCUE FLANNERY (Yorkshire, Shipley)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether his attention has been called to the fact that in the Navy List for April the names of engineer captains and engineer commanders follow the names of lieutenants of the navigating and other branches; and whether he will arrange that in future in the Navy List the names of officers borne on the books of each of His Majesty's ships shall be entered in the order of their rank and seniority in accordance with the new scheme, including officers of all branches, engineers or otherwise.
§ (Answered by Mr. Arnold-Forster.) The arrangement of names of officers in the Navy List follows the ordinary practice, which is considered to be both reasonable and convenient. The names of the wardroom and gunroom officers, respectively, of different branches serving in His Majesty's ships have always been placed in separate lists, each list being arranged according to seniority. The duties performed by the officers of the Executive Branch, the Engineering Branch, the Royal Marine Branch, the Medical Staff, and the Paymaster Branch are distinct from one another, and the branches are therefore differentiated in the Official List.