§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he will state in what manner, as regards pension only, the terms of engagement of those writers who were advertised for in the public Press by the Civil Service Commissioners on the 15th August, 1870, and registered by them on the 3rd, 6th, and 8th September of the same year, as referred 946 to in Mr. Hanbury's answer of 28th May, 1897, differed from the terms of engagement of those writers who were advertised for and registered after the 19th August, 1871.
(Answered by Mr. Arthur Elliot.) There was no difference between the terms of engagement of the two classes of copyists as regards pension. In both cases the regulations stated that no service, however much it may happen to be prolonged, will confer any claim to superannuation allowance.