§ Major GASTRELLasked the Secretary for War if he will increase the allowance granted to Yeomanry regiments for hire of horses for preliminary instruction drills; and will the allowance be based on the average of ten mounted drills for both recruits and trained men, seeing that the Government allowance granted to Yeomanry regiments for hire of horses necessary for preliminary drills is £150, and the average number of recruits may be taken at eighty, and that if fifteen mounted drills be taken as the minimum which they should perform before being dismissed recruits' course, and 2s. 6d. per horse per drill as the average charge at which the horse can be provided for one hour in a riding school, it will be seen that the above allowance is barely sufficient for preliminary training of recruits of a regiment, and leaves nothing for hire of horses for trained men?
§ Mr. HALDANEI shall be prepared to take into consideration, with other circumstances, those adduced by the hon. and gallant Member, when sufficient experience has been accumulated to call for a revision of these grants; but, with the experience of the Imperial Yeomanry before me, I cannot promise any increase.