§ Major Sir B. FALLEasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if by a recent Army Order the officer who has a total of fifteen years' service after the age of eighteen, in the ranks or as a commissioned officer, may be awarded retired pay at £80 per annum, in lieu of any gratuity he would have been eligible for under Army Order 493/19, Royal Warrant 572a; and if this scale of retired pay Is to be proportionately extended as regards the retired pay of ranker officers up to twenty-four years' service?
§ Mr. FORSTERThis point will be considered in connection with the future scale of officers' retired pay.