Mr. Michael Howard:

Of the other allowances they have mentioned, some of them are legacy allowances that have not been paid because the circumstances that gave rise to them did not happen in the course of the year. For example, search and rescue is an allowance that was paid to personnel involved in air search and rescue. That has been privatised by the coast guard so the duty no longer arises. Simply for completeness, it has been included in all the submissions because it still exists on the regulations, but it is a legacy and nobody is being paid it.

Similarly, the rations is a form of compensation, I think, for circumstances if somebody was out, they should have been fed and they were not. Army catering arrangements, no matter what has given rise to difficulty in my years-----