§ MR. W. T. WILSONTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury when it was decided that where a Member of His Majesty's Civil Service becomes a candidate for Parliament, he will, upon adoption, be retired upon half-pay, irrespective of the result of the election.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) No such decision as that embodied in the hon. Member's Question has been arrived at. But under an Order in Council of the 29th November, 1884, any person in the permanent Civil Service of the State who seeks a seat in the House of Commons must resign his office as soon as he issues his address to the electors, or in any other manner announces himself as a candidate.