§ Mr. EVELYN CECILasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he will arrange that soldiers at the front should be permitted to remit, if they desire, part of their pay into the Post Office Savings Bank through the company pay lists and regimental paymaster, seeing that some of them tend to waste their pay in purchases at the front, and that some do not wish to tie up their pay for so long as five years by investment in Government securities?
§ Mr. FORSTERArrangements are in progress by which soldiers at the front or elsewhere may invest in War Savings Certificates or Exchequer Bonds through the regimental paymaster. These forms of investment do not necessarily tie up the sum invested for five years. The question of an extension of Savings Bank facilities has been carefully considered, but it has been decided to await the result of the arrangements above referred to before proceeding.