§ 29. Sir B. FALLEasked the Secretary to the Admiralty if he can give the reason why captains and engineer-captains, Royal Navy, of under three years' seniority and under three years' service in that rank, should be placed below deputy surgeon-generals, admirals' secretaries, chief naval instructors, and pay masters-in-chief in the matter of gratuity; and if he can have the matter amended?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAUnder a War Cabinet decision gratuities to permanent officers of the Royal Navy are based on their relative ranks as compared with officers of the Army. As surgeon-captains, instructor-captains and paymaster captains all rank with a captain of three years' seniority or a colonel, they receive the gratuity of that rank, but captains and engineer-captains of under three years' seniority rank only with a lieutenant colonel and therefore receive a smaller gratuity. In the case of admirals' secretaries, the gratuity is based on their relative rank, but this varies according to their length of service as secretary, and according to the status of the officer under whom they are serving.