2. Mr. SANDEMANasked the Undersecretary of State for India on what grounds the civil privilege of remitting money to England at 2s. per rupee is denied to officers of the Indian Army.
§ Earl WINTERTONIndian Army pay is constructed on a different basis from that of civil pay, and revisions of the one do not necessarily entail revision of the other. Sterling Overseas pay, the approximate equivalent of the concession described in the question, was granted to civil officers of non-Asiatic domicile as part of a general revision of civil pay in 1924 to assist them in meeting family expenses at home. Indian Army pay was separately revised in 1926 on a scale which was decided to be adequate. The case of the married officer is met by the grant of marriage allowances, which are not given in the civil services.