Lieut.-Colonel C. D. MURRAYasked the Secretary of State for War, in relation to the cases of those staff-sergeants and 2307W acting-staff-sergeants formerly in the forage department, Army Service Corps, employed on clerical duties in the Army Audit Office, Scotland, but who were all discharged on or about the 28th February, 1919, whether an increase of pay of Is. per day to such men was authorised in February, 1917; whether the men in question received the said increase only as from 25th January, 1919; whether an increase of pay of Is. 6d. per day as from 1st January, 1918, was subsequently granted to staff-sergeants in the said service who did not receive the Is. increase authorised in February, 1917; whether it is proposed to pay the men in question discharged in February, 1919, either the 1s. per day increase during their period of service as staff-sergeants after February, 1917, and prior to 25th January, 1919, or the said increase of 1s. 6d. per day during their period of service as staff-sergeants as front 1st January, 1918, to the date of their discharge (under deduction always of the 1s. per day increase actually paid during the period 25th January, 1919, to 28th February, 1919); if the answer is in the negative, on what grounds is the non-payment of such increase based; and whether any and, if so, what decision has been arrived at in regard to the claim of the men in question to war bonus as civilians subordinates under Army Council Instruction No. 906 of 1917 and other relative Army Council Instructions; to receive pay in lieu of twenty-eight days' furlough on discharge; to receive out-of-work allowance for twenty-six weeks after discharge; and to a clothing allowance in lieu of the free issue of clothing authorised in November, 1917, but not in fact issued to such men; and in each case the reason of the decision, if any?
§ Mr. FORSTERInquiry will be made. I will inform my hon. and gallant Friend of the result.