HC Deb 04 August 1899 vol 75 c1470
LORD HUGH CECIL (Greenwich)

I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the War Office would give consideration to further suggestions from those in employment in ordnance factories, &c, in regard to pensions; and, whether the War Office would now be prepared to grant a scheme on the lines submitted to the workmen in 1889, and then rejected by them.

* THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Mr. J. POWELL-WILLIAMS,) Birmingham

The Secretary of State would not decline to give consideration to any further suggestions; but, as regards the workmen, their rejection of the scheme submitted to them in 1889 was so decisive that he is not prepared to re-open the matter as far as they are concerned.