§ DR. THOMPSON (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he is aware of the discontent existing amongst the officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps at the delegation to the Advisory Board of the duty of recommending to the Secretary of State officers for promotion; and if, seeing that many of the members of the Board are 442 civil medical practitioners, have no personal knowledge of the qualifications of many of the officers recently passed over, and are obliged to take their opinion of these officers from others junior to themselves, and that the continuation of the existing system throws the responsibility of promotions from the Secretary of State and the Director-General on the Advisory Board, he will arrange that in future officers passed over with excellent official records will be informed of the reason for their supercession.
§ MR. ARNOLD-FORSTERThe hon. Member raised last session the points now brought forward again, and definite replies were given to each. I have nothing to add to the Answers which I then gave him, and I am not aware of the dissatisfaction to which he alludes.