§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)To ask the Secretary of State for the Homo Department whether, in the case of three ex-superintendents of the A Division now receiving pensions in respect of special allowances of £75 per annum, and in the case of ex-inspectors formerly employed in the Houses of Parliament and the various Palaces, also pensioned on their extra allowances, steps were taken by the authorities to constitute these allowances pay; whether such allowances were certified in advance as pay by the Home Secretary; and, if the extra allowances to the superior officers were so certified to be pay, will he explain why similar allowances to the ordinary constables were not also certified as pay so as also to become pensionable.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) The Superintendent of the A Division receives £50 a year in addition to the ordinary pay of his rank, and he is also in receipt of one of the "good service allowances" of £25 a year mentioned in the answer given by me to my hon. friend on Monday.† Both these sums were granted as additional pay, and rateable deductions for the superannuation fund are levied on them. Extra pay of this nature is not drawn by any officer of the rank of constable. No inspector employed at the Houses of Parliament or at a Royal Palace has been pensioned on his extra allowance.