§ Mr. Granvilleasked the Secretary of State for War whether he will now review the scale of pay and allowances of junior officers, bearing in mind the fact that many articles of equipment will be subject to the Purchase Tax and that, whereas both pay and family allowances for other ranks have been increased, officers remain on scales laid down at the beginning of the war?
§ Mr. LawI would refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to a somewhat similar Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Mr. Lipson) on 20th August last, when my right hon. Friend stated that he was not satisfied that the position of junior officers, in relation to that of the rest of the community, was such as to justify an increase of pay and allowances at the present time, and pointed out that these officers already enjoyed certain advantages in the matter of taxation. The new tax will affect all sections of the community.