§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch Hoxton)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury how many clerks of the senior assistant (abstractor) class have been 558 called upon to retire, after twenty-five or more years continuous service, upon pensions of 15s. a week or less; and, having regard to the condition such pensions must entail, he will consider whether some steps can be taken to augment the allowances to these clerks.
(Answered by Mr. Victor Cavendish.) I am not in a position to state the number of persons who have retired under the circumstances referred to by the hon. Member, as a list of such cases is not kept at the Treasury. Clerks of the abstractor class are pensioned under the same conditions as other members of the permanent Civil Service; and I see no reason for treating them differently.