§ 7. Sir C. YATEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, considering that warrant officers of the Indian Ordnance Department are drawing on an average 20 per cent. less in pay and allowances than the warrant officers of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps who are working with them in arsenals and depots in India, he will either suggest to the Government of India the necessity of bringing up the pay of the Indian Ordnance Department to a scale equivalent to that of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, or else he will arrange with the War Office for the early withdrawal of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps from India; and why it is that men performing similar duties should be paid less under the rules of the Government of India than under those of the Home Government?
§ Earl WINTERTONThe information available does not bear out the statement in my hon. and gallant Friend's question, but inquiry will be made of the Government of India.