§ COLONEL LOCKWOOD (Essex, Epping)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that a second error has been made of a sovereign in the pension of Warder Martin, of Portsmouth Prison; and if this is the same man who was last year called upon to refund a sum of money paid him by a mistake of the Treasury Department?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. ASQUITH,) Fife, E.Yes; this is the same man who was last year called upon to refund a sum of money paid him through a Treasury mistake. As explained in my previous answer with regard to this case, this sum, amounting to £10 7s. 10d., is now being recouped by monthly deductions of 5s. 9d. from his pension spread over three years Martin's pension is payable at the end of each quarter, but by the universal rule he receives advances at the end of the first and second months of the quarter; the advance which was due to him last month, after a deduction of 5s. 9d. had 564 been made, was £2 19s. 3d.; but as through a mistake deductions of 5s. 2d. only had been made during the 10 preceding months a further deduction of 5s. 10d. had to be made to rectify the error. The sum thus due to Martin was £2 13s. 5d., and this sum he has received.