§ Lieutenant-Colonel SPENDER CLAYasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he can give the total amount of funds received from disbanded formations and units; and what it is proposed to do with the money so received?
Captain GUESTThe amounts are being collected and transferred to the custody of the Army Trustee, who has received approximately £21,000 to date. It is impossible at present to state what the total amount of such funds will be. As regards the latter part of the question, I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply given to the hon. and gallant Member for Wandsworth Central on the 24th February, to the effect that such funds will be utilised generally for the benefit of those from whom they have been derived and their dependants, except where subject to the conditions of a special trust.