§ 27. Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYasked the Secretary of State for War the approximate annual cost to the State of a soldier, infantry and cavalry, respectively, when with the colours and stationed in Great Britain?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans)The hon. and gallant Member will find on pages 264 and 265 of the current Army Estimates an estimate of the annual effective cost of a cavalry regiment and an infantry battalion when stationed at home and the establishment to which the estimate relates.
§ Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that these figures would include among other expenses which I do not wish to reckon the officers' pay and that kind of thing, and could he not send me, later on, the exact figures for which I have asked him?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSI want to give the hon. and gallant Gentleman the information for which he has asked, but if I were to tell him that the approximate figure is £125 a year I would mislead him, because in the case of the cavalry soldier the cost of the horse must be taken into account. If he looks at the pages, to which I have 1427 referred him, he will see that the whole cost has been set out in detail, and he can take out and use what he likes of the various figures.