§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been called to cases of efficient Abstractor Class established clerks who have been retired at the age of sixty, and who, although they were recommended for pensions on all their temporary service by the heads of their departments, have been awarded pensions of less than 15s. per week for continuous services of from twenty-eight to thirty-one years; and, if so, whether he will reconsider the cases of these clerks, with the view of granting to each of them a pension based on all admitted temporary service, under the powers of Clause 3 of the Superannuation Act of 1887.
(Answered by Mr. Arthur Elliot.) My attention has not been called to specific cases of the kind alluded to in the Question, but I can hold out no hope that the present practice as to reckoning the pension of these officers will be reconsidered.