§ MR. ELLIS GRIFFITH (Anglesey)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he can now recommend the payment of removal expenses to members of the staff for Royal Engineer services or to make an allowance in respect of such expenses, as is done in. the case of members of the Army Accounts branch in the War Department and to public servants in the Admiralty, Office of Works, and Inland Revenue Departments.
Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The question of removal expenses has not yet been finally decided.
§ MR. ELLIS GRIFFITHTo ask the Secretary of State for War whether the officers of the staff for Royal Engineer services form a branch of the Royal Engineers, or whether they are a separate and independent organisation.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The staff for Royal Engineer services is not part of the corps of Royal Engineers, 660 but is a separate branch for the execution of works and, therefore, part of the Department of the Director of Works and Fortifications, under the Master General of the Ordnance.