23. Colonel GRIFFITHSasked whether, in the interests of public economy and efficiency in the Service, he will consider 535 the advisability of dispensing with the services of a number of elderly ex-Volunteers and Territorial officers who are now occupying positions of importance, often at high pay, and of replacing them with officers of the active list, but incapacitated for foreign service, and in this way doing away with the present system of maintaining two officers where one would be sufficient?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI can assure my hon. and gallant Friend that what he suggests in this question is already being done, not only in the case of ex-Volunteer and Territorial Force officers but also in the case of retired Regular officers reemployed. The difficulty in replacing all such officers is that there are not enough incapacitated Regular officers available.