§ 6. Sir C. YATEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, considering that officers in the Indian Civil Service of less than five years' service, allowed to retire owing to the changed conditions of service under the Government of India Act, 1919, receive only a gratuity of one month's pay for each year of service, a sum in many cases that will not cover the cost of their return to England, the Secretary of State will consider the expediency of allowing to those officers a retiring gratuity and a free passage home on a scale similar to that sanctioned for officers of the Indian Army who are being brought under reduction?
§ Earl WINTERTONMy hon. and gallant Friend's question is based on a misapperhension. All officers retiring under this scheme receive, in addition to the gratuity or pension for which they are eligible, the cost of 1st class fares and passages for themselves and their families. The Secretary of State sees no sufficient ground for revising the scale of gratuity offered to junior civil officers.