§ MR. HART-DAVIES (Hackney, N.)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether it is proposed to reduce the batteries of the 40th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, to two-gun batteries; if so, whether the change would involve the abolition of a colonel's command and of captains' commands; and if he can state where the 40th Brigade, Royal Field 725 Artillery, will be quartered on its arrival in England.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) It is not intended, at present, to reduce this brigade to a two-gun establishment; there will therefore be no immediate reduction in officers. Eventually this brigade will become a training brigade, and it will then have a colonel but no captains. Its station on its arrival from India is not yet finally decided on.