§ 42. Lieut.-Colonel CAMPIONasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether his attention has been called to the existing rates payable to the keeper of a licensed victualling house for the billeting of soldiers, which expire on the 29th April, 1924; and whether he is prepared to consider any advance in the present rates of 7d. for breakfast, 10d. for hot dinner, and 4d. for supper?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the WAR OFFICE (Mr. Lawson)The answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. With regard to the latter part, the rates for next year are now under consideration, and I am therefore not in a position to make any statement regarding them, but they will as usual be submitted for Parliamentary sanction in connection with the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill of 1924.