§ Colonel GRETTONasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he is aware of the disparity between the pay of medical officers belonging to the Territorial Force and officers who have recently joined the Royal Army Medical Corps; if he is aware that majors serving as medical officers in the Territorial Force receive the same pay as a recently joined lieutenant of the Royal Army Medical Corps; if he will state what are the reasons of this disparity; and if it is proposed to take any steps to put experienced medical officers of the Territorial Force in the same position as officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps?
§ Mr. FORSTERThe Territorial Force officer is paid at the same rate as the regular R.A.M.C. officer of the same rank and service, except that only embodied service counts for increase of pay in the same rank. The comparison which my hon. and gallant Friend wishes to make is probably that between the pay of the Territorial Force officer and of the temporary officer engaged on special contract terms during the War. When allowances and terminal gratuities are taken into 2141W account, the major of the Territorial Force receives considerably more than the special contract officer.