§ Mr. JOWETTasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether it is proposed to make changes of policy in regard to the payment of soldiers employed on sedentary work and who live at their own homes; if, under the proposed change, the standard billeting allowance will be abolished and merged into a family allowance, 48W with the effect that a married man with one child whose wife is now receiving 19s. 6d. per week separation allowance plus 19s. 3d. billeting money will in future only receive 23s. per week altogether; and whether, if this would be the effect of the proposed change, he will reconsider the matter before he makes such a reduction in the family income in these cases, especially in view of the recent increase in the cost of living?
§ Mr. FORSTERNo, Sir; no change is proposed. A married man with one child living in his own house is only entitled to a family allowance of 23s. a week in addition to his pay. He is not now, nor has he ever been, entitled to separation allowance and billeting money.