§ Rear-Admiral Beamishasked the Secretary of State for War whether, now that the Royal Army Ordnance Corps has combatant status, there is any reason to continue to differentiate between the rates of pension for colonels of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and those paid to combatant officers retiring; and whether the similar difference which exists between combatant officers' pensions and those paid to Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Army Pay Corps and the Royal Army Veterinary Corps officers will be adjusted?
§ Captain MargessonThe recognition of the combatant status of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps affords no ground for alteration in their financial conditions of service. Nor it is proposed to alter the provisions regarding retired pay in the case of the arms referred to in the second part of the Question.