Lieutenant-Colonel MALONEasked the Secretary of State for War whether Royal Air Force officers and men who have not yet been demobilised and who are not volunteers for the Army of Occupation are receiving the increased rate of pay from 1st February; whether he is aware that temporary naval officers of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who are in an analogous position are receiving all the benefits referred to, and whether he will take steps to put the pay of such officers of the Royal Air Force on an equal footing?
§ Major-General SEELYFull bonus is being given in all cases from 1st May. The cases in which it may be given in arrear to officers and men who are in course of demobilisation, but have not been demobilised on 1st May, are under consideration. An early decision will be given.