§ Captain GEEasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that the conditions of the War Office circular letter 35/Gen., No./2,455 (A.G.I.R.), dated 24th December, 1920, are not being carried out, in consequence of which disabled officers have been discharged from several record offices and their duties are now being carried on by Regular officers: and will he take steps to stop this practice?
§ Lieut.-Colonel STANLEYNo, Sir; I am not aware that any disabled officers have been replaced in record offices by officers who are fit for return to their regiments. The only assistant officers now serving in record offices who do not come under the provisions of the circular letter referred to are seven supernumerary quartermasters, w-ho were appointed before the date of the circular,1560W and who are being retained in the record offices pending the occurrence of regimental vacancies into which they can be absorbed.