Major HENDERSONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office whether the War Office has any control over the administration of soldiers' accounts on the Indian Establishment; and, if not, whether he can arrange for future questions in regard to such accounts to be answered by the India Office as being the responsible Government Department?
§ Sir A. WILLIAMSONThe War Office has no control over the administration of the accounts of soldiers on the Indian Establishment. With regard to the last part of the question, the hon. and gallant Member is presumably referring to the delay in the settlement of the accounts of demobilised soldiers owing to the non-receipt of last pay certificates from India. As these cases are, after communicating with India, finally settled by pay offices in this country, the questions relating to them have been answered by me.