§ MR. LUTTRELL (Devon, Tavistock)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it has been the custom at a convict prison, where officers have been in receipt of allowances on account of special circumstances caused by the situation, to add such allowance to their pay when calculating their pension on retirement; and, if so, whether he would recommend that those employed at Princetown Prison, Dartmoor, who are in receipt of "inconvenience money," may likewise have the "inconvenience money" added 97 to their salary when calculating their retiring allowance?
§ * MR. ASQUITHThe extra allowances made to the officers at Dartmoor Convict Prison were sanctioned by the Treasury not in order to meet expenses incurred by high rents, or increased cost of the necessaries of life, but in some measure to equalise the conditions of service for officers serving in so remote a situation as Dartmoor. The inequality of conditions, however, ceases when the officers' term there comes to an end; and the Treasury have decided that, in accordance with the practice observed by them in similar cases, they cannot permit these allowances to count towards pension, and I do not see my way to press the Treasury for a re-consideration of their decision.