§ MR. SEXTONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury who is the Principal and Actuary in the War Office who also holds the position of Superintendent of the Irish Teachers' Pension Office, receiving in respect of the former office about £900 a year, and of the latter £200; how he divides his time between the War Office and the Pension Office; and whether, considering what is stated in the Treasury Memorandum in regard to the state of the Pension Fund, the superintendence of the Fund will still be left in the hands of an official who is responsible for the valuation of 1885, and whose primary and principal duties are in the War Office?
THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. GOEST,) ChathamIn reply to the first paragraph of the hon. Member's question, I beg to refer him to Thom's Official Directory, page 786. There is no division of time prescribed. I cannot answer the last question until the Committee of Actuaries has reported.
§ MR. SEXTONConsidering that the War Office is in London, and that this Pension Office is in Dublin, I should like to know how often the visits of the superintendents are made. I should also like to know whether this official in 1885 reported a surplus in the Pension Fund of £190,000, and this year reports a deficit of a like amount, and whether Ireland is to be fined in that sum?
SIR J. GORSTUntil the Committee of Actuaries has reported it would be unfair to express my opinion.
§ MR. SEXTONI will take the earliest opportunity of calling attention to this matter, and submitting that this gentleman should no longer hold his office.