asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Territorial Army officers are not being allowed to occupy the higher posts in the army, that brevet colonels of several years standing in the Territorial Army have been relieved of their brevet rank and that retired Regular officers are being brought back in the service as colonels sometimes after having been on the retired list for as long as 14 years; and whether, as Territorial Army officers complain that promotion is not being given on merit in accordance with assurances, he will give the necessary instruction to remove these grievances?