82. Major TERRELLasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office, in view of the fact that, under paragraph 496 of the 1717 Pay Warrant, officers who are in receipt of retired pay and are re-employed during a time of national emergency are entitled to draw such retired pay concurrently with service pay, and that under Army Council Instruction 1,131, of 1917, men in receipt of disablement pensions who voluntarily re-enlist continue to draw such disablement pensions, and have the right to have their cases resurveyed at the end of the period for which the pension is granted, are young temporary officers who have been retired on account of disability contracted during the present War and have been granted conditional retired pay, and who have again volunteered and been re-employed although still suffering from such disability, entitled to their retired pay and the pay attributable to their re-employment?
§ Colonel GIBBSThe question is now under consideration, and I will inform the hon. and gallant Member in due course of the decision.