§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can inform the House if any pay of the two captains employed on the Official History of the South African War, since the cost has been removed from the War Office to the Treasury 1760 Vote, is charged against Vote 1 of the Army Estimates, or whether the £1,020 taken for the History in the Estimates of the present year is spent on the salaries of these officers and their military pay suspended.
(Answered by Mr. Hobhouse.) No pay of the officers employed under the Committee of Imperial Defence in writing the History of the South African War has been charged to Army Votes since the work was transferred from the War Office. As regards the second part of the Question, there are now three officers engaged upon this work and the £1,020 covers the total emoluments of the three.