§ Viscount DUNCANNONasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he will reconsider his reply of 27th November, 1919, on the subject of barrack department employes; whether War Office Letter No. 27/General No./2,223, A.G.I, of 15th September, 1914, prohibited re-enlistment of those pensioners; whether these men were in military and not civil employ; whether they were subject to military law and were military uniform throughout the War: and whether he is aware that many of these men were offered commissioned or warrant rank and that permission to leave their duties was refused owing to the above-quoted restriction?
§ Sir A. WILLIAMSONI can only refer the Noble Lord to the answer given by my right hon. Friend to the hon. Member for the Canterbury Division on the 2nd December last.