HC Deb 12 July 1898 vol 61 cc687-8
SIR SEYMOUR KING (Hull, Central)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether those officers in the Indian Civil Service, whose allowance for exchange compensation was stopped in 1894, and who, under the new rules, have been admitted to the allowance from the 1st April, 1897, are now permitted to draw arrears for the period from 1894 to 1897, during which it was stopped pending the decision of the Secretary of State?

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, Ealing

Orders have been given by the Government of India for the classification of the cases in which exchange compensation to civil officers was suspended in 1894 and is admissible under the new rules of 1897, with a view to a decision being passed in each case whether the arrears for the intervening three years may be granted. In a few cases where the claim has been considered to be clearly established such arrears have been paid.