§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Secretary of State for War if he will inquire into, and take measures to correct, the over establishment in West African Command, where a military hospital whose average number of occupied beds since July is 200 and whose establishment in this country would be three medical officers, retains 13 medical officers, excluding the O.C., and where, in a hospital with less than 40 patients, there are nine medical officers; and what steps he is taking to ensure that staffs are not kept merely because the reduction of establishment means lower rank for the senior officers.
§ Mr. LawsonThe medical services in the West Africa Command are already in process of reorganisation and considerable reductions in medical and nursing staff are being made. The revised establishments, in this and other cases, are fixed in relation to current and future needs, without regard to the rank and status of present occupants.