§ 66. Sir A. HOLBROOKasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he is aware of the reduction of naval officers' pay by the taxation of their lodging allowance when serving ashore; that owing to this taxation having been made retrospective an officer in receipt of £100 lodging allowance per annum is liable to pay £60 in the current year, though when this allowance was approved in 1919 it was distinctly stated that due notice would be given if any change was contemplated; and, in view of these facts, will he consider the discontinuance of this new taxation?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hilton Young)I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the answers, of which I am sending him copies, given on the 6th, 20th and 29th March by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty to questions by the hon. and gallant Member for the Shettleston Division of Glasgow (Rear-Admiral Adair). I do not follow the figures in the cases alluded to, but I shall be pleased to have the matter looked into, on being furnished with the necessary particulars.