COLONEL LOCK WOOD (Essex, Epping)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if promotion from Deputy Governor to Governor in Her Majesty's Prison Service deprives officers in receipt of Army non-effective pay of the protection afforded by Section 10 of the Superannuation Act of 1887; and whether Colonel Partridge, 754 the present Governor of Parkhurst Convict Prison, was, on promotion from Deputy Governor to Governor, deprived of 10 per cent. of his Civil salary, and five years of his service towards a Civil pension, on account of his having retired with a gratuity from the Army, notwithstanding that he was apparently protected by Section 10 of the Superannuation Act of 1887?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. ASQUITH, Fife, E.)An officer is free to accept or to refuse promotion to the office of Governor of a Prison, but his acceptance is conditional on his foregoing one of the rights secured by the section quoted—namely, exemption from any abatement from Civil salary, when received together with military pay or pension. Colonel Partridge, by accepting the office of Governor of Parkhurst Prison, accordingly became liable to an abatement of 10 per cent. on his increased Civil emoluments. He has not been deprived of any years of his service towards Civil pension on account of his having retired with a gratuity from the Army.