§ Sir FREDERICK LOWasked the Secretary of State for War whether, as an additional inducement for cadets in the Officers' Training Corps to become Territorial officers, he will advise that such cadets shall be allowed to reckon their full period of service in their training corps as service in the Territorial Force, and also to count their training corps' service as qualifying for the Territorial decoration?
§ Colonel SEELYMembers of the Territorial Force who are promoted to commissions from the ranks are only permitted to reckon half their service in the ranks as qualifying service for the Territorial decoration. The cadets of the senior division Officers' Training Corps are required to undergo military training practically equivalent to that undergone by non-commissioned officers and men of Territorial units and are allowed similarly to reckon half their service as cadets as service in the Territorial Force. There does not appear to be any strong reason for the differential treatment proposed in the question.