§ Mr. R. RICHARDSONasked the Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the fact that the recommendations contained in Part I. of the Committee appointed to inquire into the administration and organisation of the Army in India are calculated, if carried into effect, to endanger the constitutional supremacy of the civil power and to transfer the control of the Army in India from the 1753W Government of India to the War Office, which the India Office communiqué of 3rd October last declares is not the intention of His Majesty's Government, he will give an undertaking that none of the recommendations of this Committee are carried into effect, or in any way acted upon, until they have been discussed and approved both by Parliament and the Indian Legislative Assembly?
§ Mr. FISHERI would refer to the replies given to the hon. Member for East Nottingham (Sir J. D. Rees) and by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the hon. Member for Barnard Castle (Mr. Swan) last Thursday. Until the Report as a whole has been considered by the Secretary of State in Council and by His Majesty's Government, my right hon. Friend is not in a position to make any announcement. But, as was stated on Thursday, many of the recommendations made in the later parts of the Report, other than Parts I. and II., concern natters of detail which are within the competence of the Government of India, and he does not propose to delay dealing with them pending consideration of the important but controversial question to which the hon. Member refers.