§ 40. Mr. BILLINGasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether dissatisfaction exists among the junior married officers of the new Army in connection with the administration of the special separation allowances; and, in view of the fact that this dissatisfaction may be largely attributed to ignorance of the circumstances and conditions which govern the allowances, whether he will say under what conditions an officer is entitled to claim this allowance, the amount of the allowance, and the procedure necessary to obtain it?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI am not aware of the dissatisfaction to which the lion. Member refers. The conditions under which Grants may be made by the Military Service (Civil Liabilities) Committee are fully stated in the Special Army Order which was issued on the 14th March, a copy of which I shall be happy to send to the hon. Member.
§ Mr. BILLINGAre we to understand that every junior officer has a copy of this given to him, or from where does he got the information?
Mr. MACPHESONI do not think that every individual officer has an individual copy sent to him, but he probably knows what the terms are.
§ Mr. BILLINGWhat action is an officer to take if he wants to get full information-can he apply for it?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONCertainly. Very likely the adjutant of the regiment will be able to supply him.
§ Mr. BILLINGIn the event of there being any back allowance due to him, is he entitled to claim it?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONCertainly.
§ Mr. HOGGEIs it not a fact that every officer of that rank can get that information by a specific application to Imperial House, Kingsway, the offices of the Civil Liabilities Committee?
§ Mr. BILLINGThey do not know it.
26. Mr. T. WILSONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of National Service if men who signed National Service Volunteer forms are being transferred from their present employment to the Aircraft Manufacturing Company at Hendon, that they are being paid at a lower rate than they were receiving at the place they were transferred from, that the Aircraft Company refuse to comply with the agreement or recognise the promises made by the Director of National Service; and whether he" will take steps to compel this company to observe the conditions agreed to between himself and the National Service Volunteers?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of NATIONAL SERVICE (Mr. S. Walsh)No reports have reached the National Service Department of the cases alleged to have occurred in this question, but inquiries are being made, and in the meantime, perhaps, the hon. Member would supply me with any particulars he may have in his possession.