MR. RAYMOND GREENE (Cambridge, Chesterton)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Police Reservists forfeit 363 any claim on the pension fund for the years spent on active service; and, if so, whether he will provide that compulsory service in the army shall count as service entitling a police constable to his pension, and that there shall be contributed from the Consolidated Fund such part of the pension as shall be proportionately attributable to the period of active service.
§ * MR. RITCHIEIt is the case that in the event of Police Reservists returning to the Police Force after the end of their military service the period of service with the colours does not count for pension, though the constable can by the express provision of the Police Act, 1890, reckon his previous service. I am not in a position to promise legislation on the lines suggested.