§ 22. Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether the Admiralty has now decided or will decide that any pensionable dockyardsman who chooses to retire may do so and take his accrued pension to date and, similarly, allow dockyardsmen to take their gratuities to date if they retire of their own volition?
§ Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAMThe matter is under consideration, as I informed the hon. Member during the course of the Debate on Navy Estimates (OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th March, cols. 1771–2.)