HC Deb 12 November 1906 vol 164 cc1047-8
COLONEL LOCKWOOD

I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will state why from the 1st April the local allowance of civil servants in Northern Nigeria was reduced from 5s. to 4s. a day: and whether the sum of 5s. a day was fixed to be paid to officers until the conditions of residential service were improved and officers provided with permanent quarters.

MR. CHURCHILL

The circumstances in which this allowance was originally granted, and the grounds on which it is now being reduced were stated at length in a written reply which I made to a| Question on the 31st of July last.† and I would ask the hon. and gallant Member †See (4) Debates, clxii., 675. to refer to that reply, a copy of which] I will send him for his convenience.

COLONEL LOCKWOOD

Is it the fact that in 1905 a proposal to reduce the allowance of officers was over-ruled by the then Secretary of State on representations being made to him?

MR. CHURCHILL

asked for notice of the Question.