§ Major M'CALMONTasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that a quartermaster or riding master who receives an increase of pay for distinguished service in the field or for other distinguished or exceptional services does not in consequence receive the next increase of pay to which he becomes entitled automatically through length of commissioned service, and that when, as has often been the case, several quartermasters and riding masters are so promoted simultaneously for exactly similar services, their pecuniary reward varies from nearly five years' to a few days' increased pay according to whether their next automatic increase happens to be imminent or otherwise; and will he state what steps he proposes to take to improve the pay of these officers?
§ Mr. H. BAKERThe facts are as stated, but there would not appear to be any reason on this account for improving the pay of these officers generally. It must be remembered that similar inequalities of benefit arise with brevet promotion generally.