§ 85. Mr. CROOKSasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is 2129 aware that the clerks attached to the Records Office, Nottingham, have been put on rations; that 12s. per week has been stopped from each man, with a promise that 5½d. per day would be refunded; and that up to the present no refund has been made; whether he is aware that these men have not yet received the recent increase in pay and are not in receipt of light and fuel allowances; and whether he will have close inquiry made into the conditions complained of and see that these men are treated in accordance with the Regulations?
Mr. MAPHERSONThese soldiers are being treated in strict accordance with the Regulations. Being now supplied with rations in kind, they have naturally ceased to draw the allowance of 12s. 3d. a week in lieu of rations. The 5½d. I a day for messing is being paid into their messing fund in accordance with Regulations. They are in receipt of the regulated allowance for lodgings, fuel and light. If any of them has not received any pay to which he may be entitled under the recent Royal Warrant, he should complain to the officer from whom he draws his pay.