Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 25 February 1947.
General Sir George Jeffreys
, Petersfield
12:00,
25 February 1947
Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that when the Territorial Army is reconstituted, it will be amateur officers who will have to go to these drills; and when he says "the army," does he mean that these amateur officers have to add to their other tasks the great labour of keeping P.A.Y.E. accounts and making deductions? Is he aware that this is likely to wreck the whole scheme of reconstitution?