§ SIR R. TEMPLE () Surrey, KingstonI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he will afford particulars regarding the Official Committee to report on the plan already proposed for the superannuation of elementary teachers, the names of the gentlemen who are to compose it, and the exact terms of the Reference?
§ MR. ACLANDThe Committee will consist of two gentlemen, MR. Kekewich and Mr. Tucker, representing the Education Department; one, Mr. Spring Rice, representing the Treasury, and two actuaries—Mr. Sutton, of the Friendly Societies Office, and Mr. Finlaison, of the National Debt Office. The terms of the Reference are as follows:—
To consider and report upon alternative methods of establishing such system, and the form which it should take both generally and in detail, and to make suggestions as to the conditions, amount, and limits of the contributions by the State, and the control and management of the Superannuation Fund. The Committee should have special regard to the evidence taken, and the recommendations made, by the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the best system of providing for the superannuation of public elementary teachers in England and Wales, as embodied in the Report of that Committee, dated the 27th May, 1892.