SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL&c.) (Kirkcaldy,asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether the pensions given as compensation for loss in office in the Transvaal, which are lumped in the Colonial Vote without details, have ever been brought to the knowledge of the House in the same way that new retiring allowances are always submitted by every other Department, in Returns stating names, amounts, and cause of grant?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir HENRY HOLLAND) (Hampstead)I believe that those pensions, not being granted under the Superannuation Act, were not brought in detail before the House when they were first granted in the same manner as new pensions under those Acts. I have already explained how they were granted upon the retrocession of the Transvaal.
§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked, when they first appeared on the Votes?
§ SIR HENRY HOLLANDsaid, he presumed they appeared in 1884, the first year after they were granted.
§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLsaid, that they had never been brought before Parliament, but had been confined to a confidential Report, which the right hon. Gentleman had been good enough to let him see.
§ SIR HENRY HOLLANDsaid, that no details of names had ever been brought before Parliament, in the same way as in the case of pensions under the Superannuation Act. The Vote, however, for these pensions came up every year; and any hon. Member could, of course, make inquiry, as the hon. Member himself did this year.