Mr. WARD LAW-MILNEasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office why the Royal Warrant (Army Order 366, of 1925) issued in October last, reducing the pay and delaying by a year the promotion of officers who obtain their commissions after 25th October, 1925. is to be applied to the Woolwich cadets who passed a competitive examination in November, 1923, in view of the fact that these cadets obtained higher marks than most of the Sandhurst cadets, have had a longer course of instruction, and, if they are not exempted from the operation of the Royal Warrant, will lose their seniority and have a reduced scale of pay during the whole of their career?
§ Captain KINGI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave on the 15th instant to the hon. and gallant Member for Portsmouth North (Sir B. Falle). I would add that the reductions are in the main confined to the pay of ranks below that of senior captain.