§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that the Secretary of State for India with the concurrence of the Army Council has approved of a timetable for substantive promotion of officers in the Indian Army under which a captain of fifteen years becomes a major and a lieutenant of four years becomes a captain, he will consider the case of those officers of the Regular Cavalry in the British Army who are still captains with fifteen years' service?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI would refer my hon. Friend to the answer given on 19th 2415W April, 1916, by my right hon. Friend the then Under-Secretary of State to my hon. Friend the hon. and gallant Member for the Melton Division.