HC Deb 10 May 1922 vol 153 cc2217-8W
Sir P. PILDITCH

asked the Secretary of State for War whether, seeing the disadvantages under which the commissioned officers of the staff for Royal Engineer services are suffering, and that the War Office has stated that the Secretary of State and his military advisers are in sympathy with the principles advanced by the Surveyors' Institution regarding these officers, and seeing also that satisfactory conditions for the rest of the Army were settled as long ago as July, 1919, he will now stale the date upon which he proposes to bring into force the new conditions of service for these officers as submitted to him by the Surveyors' Institution and the Royal Institute of British Architects, thereby remedying the present; position of comparative poverty in which the staff for Royal Engineer services officers are now placed and conceding to them such recognition, rewards, and compensations for Army service as is already given to all other Army officers of similar professional standing?

Sir R. SANDERS

I regret that a definite reply cannot be given at present. The matter is under consideration.