§ SIR SEYMOUR KINGTo ask the Secretary of State for India whether, in view of the fact that retired members of the Indian Uncovenanted Services who draw their pensions in the United Kingdom, under the decision of the Select Committee of this House which sat in 1890, at the rate of 1s. 9d. for the rupee, are obliged to commute on a rupee basis the proportion of their pension which is sanctioned under the regulations, thus incidentally depriving them of a part of the benefit to which they are entitled under the settlement of 1890, the Government will allow commutation allowances in these cases to be remitted home at the officially fixed rate of 1s. 9d.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The matter has not been brought before me hitherto. I will give it careful consideration.