HC Deb 01 July 1881 vol 262 cc1824-5
MR. JAMES HOWARD

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the Officers of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests' Office come under the provisions of the Civil Service Superannuation Act; whether their appointments are subject to the Civil Service Commission; and, under what regulations they hold their appointments?

LORD FREDERICK CAVENDISH

The officers of the Office of Woods and Forests are subject to the same conditions of appointment, tenure, and pension as the other members of the Civil Service whose salaries are voted in Committee of Supply. The receivers, surveyors, and local officers who are ap- pointed by the Treasury and paid out of the gross land revenue are not under the Superannuation Act; but, by a Treasury Minute passed some years ago, their pensions, which are paid out of the land revenue, are regulated on the principles of that Act.