§ 31. Mr. C. DUNCANasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will consider the advisability of providing that, in the case of Civil servants appointed to temporary commissions in the Army for the period of the War, the balance of civil pay should not be reduced below 2s. 6d a day in the case of a second lieutenant and 1s. 6d. in the case of a lieutenant or captain, having in view the fact that the pay of an officer promoted from the ranks to a permanent commission exceeds the ordinary pay of other officers by these amounts, thereby showing that it is recognised as necessary that an officer should possess outside income to that extent?
§ Mr. MONTAGUI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave to the hon. and gallant Member for St. Albans on the 14th ultimo.