asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will give the respective rates of pay for Colonial troops and the scale of dependants' allowances and pensions for Service disability and death?

The rates of pay for Colonial troops and the scale of dependants' allowances and pensions for Service disability and death vary according to the Colony in which the troops are raised. The position is too complicated to set out within the scope of a Parliamentary answer, but I am having a memorandum on the subject prepared and will send it to my hon. Friend as soon as it is ready.

Will the Minister be good enough to circulate the document for the benefit of other Members who are interested?

I was hoping to have some talk with my hon. Friend as to the scope of the inquiry. In the present form it will entail a very great deal of labour. Perhaps when I have had a talk with him as to the actual facts he wants, we can make them available to anyone else who wants them.

Would not these figures be extremely valuable to all Members of the House and indeed might be useful to the Minister's Department?