§ MR. RUNCIMAN (Dewsbury)To ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether, in view of the fact that in respect to the South African War a regimental captain appointed as staff lieutenant would get £60, the captain's gratuity, a regimental lieutenant appointed a local captain would get £60, being the benefit under the Army Order No. 5 of 1901, but that a regimental lieutenant appointed both a local captain and a staff lieutenant would get only £27 10s., although as a staff officer he would have more responsibility than as a regimental local captain, instructions will be given to rectify this apparent inequality.
(Answered by Mr. Bromley-Davenport.) If the hon. Member will be good enough to furnish the details of any such eases as those mentioned in the latter part of the Question, they shall be inquired into.