HC Deb 14 June 1910 vol 17 c1174
Major ADAM

asked the Secretary of State for War who was responsible for the date of the Army promotion examinations having been fixed in Whitsun week, a date which would naturally be inconvenient to many officers of the Regular and Territorial Forces?

The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. Haldane)

The date for the Army promotion examination in question is fixed for the third Monday in May by the King's Regulations, paragraph 870. The attendance of Territorial Force officers is voluntary, but as nearly 600 presented themselves, as compared with 113 at the December examination, it is evident that the date was not inconvenient to them.

Major ADAM

I should like to ask if, when this inconvenience was brought to the notice of the War Office the only reply was that that Department did not know, and could not be expected to know, the date of Whit Monday?