HC Deb 02 November 1908 vol 195 cc733-4
MR. PIKE PEASE (Darlington)

To ask the Secretary of State for War why refusal has been given as to the payment of free travelling allowance, as promised, for officers' wives in the event of officers being moved from a station on permanent duty.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The promise of free conveyance, made in 1906, to which the hon. Member is apparently alluding, only applied to

the Winter Assizes, 1905, in the following form:—

conveyance by sea. The regulations are contained in paragraphs 426 and 427 of the Allowance Regulations.