§ Lieut.-Colonel Macnamaraasked the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware of the anxiety and difficulties caused to wives of personnel transferred to the Indian Army owing to the delay in their allowances coming through; whether he is aware that Mrs. M. A. Ferguson, of At Torwood, Mountnessing Road, Billericay, Essex, wife of Lieutenant R. P. Ferguson, has had no allowances since her husband was transferred from the British to the Indian Army on 13th July, 1942; and whether he will expedite payment?
§ Mr. AmeryOn transfer to Indian payment an officer gets the advantage of being able to use official agencies for the issue of allotments from his pay to his family. It sometimes happens, however, that in the period immediately following an officer's transfer this arrangement fails to work to the advantage of the family because of difficulties and delays attending the transition from one pay system to another. A common cause of delay is that under the Indian system an officer has to say how much he wants allotted to his family. This seems to be responsible for the difficulty in the case of Lieutenant R. P. Ferguson, but I am having further inquiries made and will see that there is no obstacle in the way so far as official machinery is concerned.