Temporary and Substantive Rank

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army – in the House of Commons at on 10 November 1942.

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Photo of Sir James Grigg Sir James Grigg , Cardiff East

My hon. and gallant Friend appears to be misinformed. All non-Regular officers are in fact given promotion to war substantive rank under the same rules and on the same basis as Regular officers. After a fixed perior of temporary rank they are granted war substantive rank one rank lower than their temporary rank. The present policy as laid down in the pamphlet quoted by my hon. and gallant Friend has been carefully considered, and I do not think there is any case for changing it in order to give substantive as distinct from war substantive promotion to non-Regular officers in war-time.