§ 14. Major BARNETTasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether Pay Office clerks who were engaged before the end of 1919 are entitled, if they served in the Royal Army Pay Corps, to receive increments of pay based upon such service; whether men of the Royal Army Pay Corps who were asked during 1919 to defer demobilisation for six months or more, and who, on the completion of such extended service, were engaged as civilian clerks, are debarred from such increments; and, if so, whether he will consider the desirability of placing all Pay Office clerks on the same footing by making service in the Royal Army Pay Corps count for increments whether or not demobilisation was deferred at the request of the Department?
§ Lieut.-Colonel STANLEYI am looking into this question, and will communicate with my hon. and gallant Friend later.