§ MR. CARLILETo ask the Secretary of State for War whether it is intended that a subaltern in the Territorial Force who has obtained as a Volunteer a captain's certificate at a school of instruction within ten years of the present time, and who has frequently in the interval had to drill, manœuvre, command, and administer a company, should be required to obtain a captain's certificate a second time at a school of instruction on promotion to the rank of captain.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) A subaltern, unless he has qualified in the corresponding arm of the Regular Forces, Militia, Imperial Yeomanry, or Volunteers within three years of his appointment to the Territorial Force, will be required to qualify under the Territorial Force regulations for the rank of captain before promotion to that rank. Subject to the above proviso, he may count towards qualification for promotion to the rank of captain any course he may have undergone previously to his transfer.