§ 49. Brigadier - General McCALMONTasked the Prime Minister whether his 1709 attention has been called to paragraph 443 of His Majesty's Regulations for the Army under which deliberations or discussions by officers or soldiers with the object of conveying praise, censure, or any marks of approbation towards their superiors, or any others in His Majesty's Service, are prohibited; whether he will cause such instructions to be issued by the Board of Admiralty, the Army Council, and the Air Council as will make it clear, in the interests both of Members of Parliament and of the Services, that Members of Parliament while serving on the active list of any of the three Services are in an exactly similar position as regards such Regulations as are other members of His Majesty's Forces; and whether such instructions need be taken as precluding Service members from putting questions, taking part in Debates, or voting in the House on questions of administration in which the conduct of their Service superiors or of other individual officers is not concerned?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI cannot at present make any statement on the subject, but the whole question is being considered by the Government.