§ Mr. Piratinasked the Secretary of State for War the normal ration allowance for troops who would otherwise draw rations from British sources in the United Kingdom and in other theatres, respectively.
§ Mr. LawsonRates of ration allowance, issued in place of rations in kind, for British troops and other troops entitled to British troops' scales of rations, on 1st June, 1946, were as follow:
officers of the Services was reduced between 1919 and 1935 by 9½ per cent. on account of a reduction in the cost of living and that many officers who retired 305W before the present war are still drawing the reduced rates, he will consider the restoration of the cuts then made and some increase to bring them more into harmony with the rates given to officers retiring at the present time.
§ Mr. LawsonThe new retired pay code which was announced in the White Paper Command 6750 is intended primarily for officers making a career in the postwar Forces. The scheme of which I gave particulars on 15th April, in reply to a Question by the hon. and gallant Member for Knutsford (Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport), will provide a measure of reassessment of retired pay, based on the new code, to retired officers who served during the war, but I should not feel justified in extending the application of the new terms to officers who did not give full-time paid service in the Armed Forces in the 1939–45 war. There is, however, already provision in the Pensions Increase Warrant of 1944, for the grant of a percentage increase to the retired pay of such officers. The great majority of them benefit from this provision, only those in receipt of retired pay of £645 a year and upwards being excluded.