§ Mr. BOYTONasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office by what Army Order is a paymaster authorised to withdraw separation allowance for twenty-eight days from the wife of a soldier undergoing detention for ten days; if there be no such Army Order, will he inquire why the wife and child of Private John Parkinson, No. 6821, East Yorks Regiment, was deprived of twenty-eight days' separation allowance; and has the Order of 16th November, 1914, been revoked, by which it was decided that pending further instructions no deduction for separation allowance and allotment will be made for periods of imprisonment of soldiers up to twenty-eight days at home and six months abroad.
Mr. BAKERThe existing Regulation is paragraph 11 of Army Order 120 of 1915, under which separation allowance is stopped for periods of detention exceeding twenty-eight days, if the soldier is at home. I will have inquiries made into the case to which the hon. Member refers.