§ SIR SAMUEL SCOTT (Marylebone, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to an order recently issued to the effect that travelling expenses incurred by staff and other officers of the Regular 1506 Army on full pay, including adjutants of Volunteers, when undertaking certain duties in connection with Volunteer corps, such as conducting war games, directing staff rides, and attending field days, cannot be defrayed from Army funds; and whether seeing that the expenses incurred by officers undertaking these duties will fall upon their own private purse, and will tend to discourage the officers of the Regular Army who have not private means from rendering valuable and most desirable aid in the training of Volunteers, he will consider the advisability of withdrawing this order.
§ MR. HALDANEArmy Order 130 of 1906 provides for the travelling expenses of Volunteer brigadiers and brigade majors, and adjutants' travelling expenses are provided for under paragraph 477 Volunteer Regulations. These provisions cover the cases of Regular or ex-Regular officers who are primarily charged with training Volunteers, and I, therefore, see no necessity for modifying the order in question.