§ Sir A. HOLBROOKasked the Under-Secretary of State for War what is the annual cost of the Corps of Military Accountants; and whether it is intended that this corps shall be a permanent addition to the military forces of the Crown?
§ Mr. GWYNNEThe annual cost for 1923\24 is £236,900, as shown on page 25 of the Army Estamites. In answer to the second part of the question, the Corps of Military Accountants was instituted to carry out the recommendations of the National Expenditure Committee of this House in 1918, and I am not at present in a position to say whether that system of accounting will be continued or not.