§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether pensions are now being paid to certain ex-superintendents and ex-inspectors of the Metropolitan Police in respect of allowances for good service which were made to them over and above the certified scale of their pay; and, if so, by what authority these extra pensions are paid.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) The "good service allowances" referred to by the hon. Member are drawn by six superintendents of the Metropolitan Police Force, and were granted as an addition to the ordinary pay of the officers' rank, and form part of the annual pay on which their pensions are calculated under The Police Act, 1890. Rateable deductions for the Superannuation Fund are levied from them. No ex-inspector of the Metropolitan Police is in receipt of a pension in the calculation of which a good service allowance was included.