§ COLONEL LOCKWOOD (Essex, Epping)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that in some Government offices regulations have been issued which make it necessary for civil servants in the Territorial Force going to camp to find substitutes during their absence; that, although officials receive both their civil and military pay whilst so doing, the cost of a substitute may mean a considerable loss; and whether he proposes to take any step to prevent this happening.
(Answered by Mr. Hobhouse.) Arrangements have been sanctioned under which any reasonable excess beyond the civil and military pay of the civil servants referred to will be defrayed from public funds.