HC Deb 15 December 1919 vol 123 c11
22. Colonel YATE

asked whether, in considering the question of the permission granted to officers of the Army and Navy when in uniform to travel first class at second-class fares on production of the requisite form authorising them to do so, he will take into consideration the entirely different and unsettled conditions under which these officers are serving compared with the more settled lives of the civil population, and that he will not deprive these officers of this small concession so long as the railways are under Government control?

Mr. NEAL

This question is one primarily for the War Office, and I shall be glad if my hon. and gallant Friend will kindly put down a question on the subject addressed to the Secretary of State for War.

Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS

Has the Department had representations made in favour of terminating this concession from the Chancellor of the Exchequer?

Mr. NEAL

Communications are passing between my right hon. Friend and the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon this subject.