§ MR. YOXALLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has considered the petitions forwarded to him by the officers of Her Majesty's prisons, praying that their retiring allowances may be augmented to two-thirds of their pay and allowances on completing thirty years of service; and whether, having regard to the additional responsibilities imposed on such officers by the Prisons Act of 1898, the request of the petitioners might be complied with.
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir M. WHITE RIDLEY,) Lancashire, BlackpoolI have received these petitions from the Prison Commissioners this morning. I shall now consider whether I ought again to make any recommendations to the Treasury on this subject.