§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that a chief engine-room artificer, 1st class, on promotion to the rank of artificer engineer suffers a diminution in actual pay instead of an increase; that the pay is insufficient for him to live in a manner compatible with the status and dignity of an officer; that dissatisfaction exists among chief and artificer engineers at what is regarded by them as unfair treatment of men who have led so strenuous a life in the War; and will he consider the possibility of awarding each engineer officer promoted from engine-room artificers the sum of 3s. a day as specialist allowance or, as an alternative on promotion, that the allowance granted to chief engine-room artificers on account of certificates, 2s. per day, be not stopped as is done at present, and an extra 1s. per day be allowed on account of the passing certificate to artificer engineers?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAThe matter raised in my hon. Friend's question is under consideration.