HC Deb 07 May 1913 vol 52 c2027
37. Mr. ARTHUR LEE

asked the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the fact that under the proposed new scale of officers' pay, which provides that a captain must have three years' service as such before receiving the higher rate, junior captains of the Royal Garrison Artillery, who must have thirteen years' service or over, will be placed at a fresh disadvantage as compared with officers of similar standing in other branches of the Artillery and the Army generally; and whether, in view of the fact that under the proposed regulations a captain of the Royal Garrison Artillery would usually have sixteen years' service before receiving the higher pay, whilst captains in the Royal Horse or Royal Field Artillery and in other branches of the Army would frequently become eligible after thirteen years or less, he will consider the advisability of granting the higher rate to all captains on their promotion to that rank?

Colonel SEELY

This point is not being lost sight of in the consideration of the general question.