§ Lieut.-Colonel MOORE - BRABAZONasked the Under-Secretary of State for War (1) how the reduction of the personnel of the Army Educational Corps will affect non-commissioned officers enlisted into the Army as instructors as regards transfers to other units: whether they will be permitted to transfer to other technical corps such as the Army Bay Corps or the Royal Army Ordnance Corps;
(2) whether, in view of the reduction of the Army Educational Corps and the fact that many of the non-commissioned officers transferred into it from other units were senior non-commissioned officers with every prospect of further promotion, being in possession of the Army first-class certificate of education, 2075W they will be allowed to transfer back to their own units; and, if so, if they will be allowed to retain their former rank, if higher than their present rank, their present rank, or the rank they would have attained if they had remained with their unit in their former rank?
Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESSNo further reductions in the personnel of other ranks of the Army Educational Corps are at present anticipated, so that the question of transfer of personnel to other corps does not arise.