§ Mr. NEWMANasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that the practice of making an allowance of 2d. per day to gunlayers who had been awarded a good conduct stripe has been abolished; has a similar policy been adopted in other branches of the Service; and what steps, if any, have been taken to give such encouragement to good conduct as was provided by the system which has been abandoned?
§ Colonel SEELYGunlayers, like all other soldiers, at one time drew good conduct pay according to the number of good conduct badges they possessed. There was never any special good conduct rate for gunlayers. On the introduction of service pay in 1904 the principle of giving extra pay in respect of good conduct and of withdrawing it in respect of misconduct was abandoned and has not been re-introduced. This applies to all branches of the Service.