Captain FABERasked the Secretary of State for War if he will state whether, with regard to the smallness of pensions to quartermasters and riding masters, this is due to the non-liability of these officers to over-exercise the functions of command; whether, according to the words of the King's Regulations, officers of honorary rank shall at all times take command of such forces as are placed under them; and whether this makes them liable to exercise the functions of command?
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§ Mr. HALDANEThe reply to the first part of the question is in the negative. As regards the last part of the question, if the hon. and gallant Member will refer to paragraph 229 of the King's Regulations he will find that the answer to his question is in the negative. The reasons for the grant of the present scales of pension to these officers are explained in my answer to a question put by my hon. Friend the Member for the Stowmarket Division of Suffolk on 17th February, 1908.