MR. LYULPH STANLEYasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether, as promised to the Member for East Cornwall last Session, he has taken into consideration the whole question of pensions to those teachers who entered upon their duties before May 1862; and, if so, whether, in view of the great 1947 and increasing distress among these teachers, and the inadequacy of the sum now voted by Parliament for teachers' pensions, the Education Department is prepared to apply to the Treasury for a larger vote than the present sum of £6,500 per annum, and. to what extent?
§ MR. MUNDELLAI have consulted the Treasury on the question of teachers' pensions, and, having regard to the fact that a Committee of this House reported in 1872 that the Minute of 1846 gave no teacher a vested right to a pension, and that, in 1875, £6,500 per annum was given by the late Government as an ex gratid payment, and accepted by the House in final settlement of the teachers' claims, the Treasury declines to re-open the question.