§ Mr. Kennedyasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that colour-sergeants at infantry brigade headquarters and orderly-room sergeants at battalion headquarters are denied promotion to warrant rank, permitted to the clerical staffs of headquarters of divisions; and whether he will consider the desirability of amending the regulations in order to end the existing differentiation, and to ensure that the conditions, appointments, and promotions in the Territorial Army may coincide with those in the Regular Army?
§ Sir V. WarrenderTerritorial Army clerks at the headquarters of divisions, brigades or battalions are not interchangeable between one headquarters and another and so cannot be put on a common roster for promotion like the Royal Army Service Corps clerks of the Regular Army. They hold ranks appropriate to the formations in which they serve and being Territorial soldiers they cannot be moved from their residential areas. Territorial Army Associations are responsible for the actual conditions of employment and rates of pay of clerks employed, and a grant is drawn which covers the cost of providing clerical assistance.