§ Captain Earl WINTERTONasked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the growing importance of the legislation being passed by this House, affecting wide-reaching changes after the War, he will consider whether Members of this House serving on distant Fronts in Salonika, Palestine, and elsewhere, should relinquish in the public interest their military and assume their Parliamentary duties; and if he is aware that hon. Members who are serving in His Majesty's Army abroad are placed in a difficult position, owing to being unaware as to whether they should or should not return to their Parliamentary duties?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe Government do not interfere with the power of choice allowed to the Members referred to. Those who have elected to give military service are at liberty to attend to their Parliamentary duties so far as military and geographical exigencies permit.