§ DR. AMBROSE (Mayo, W.)To ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the authorised scales of superannuation, retired pay, or pension of officials and officers serving His Majesty in the Civil, Naval, and Military Departments and Forces of the Crown are based on the status or rank last held by the official or officer as well as on the amount of salary then paid to him; and whether, as a general rule, each grade receives a higher rate of pension than the grade below.
(Answered by Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman.) The rules for calculating retired pay and pension cannot be shortly stated. They will be found, as regards the Navy, in the King's Regulations; as regards the Army, in the Royal Warrant on pay and non-effective pay; as regards Civil Service, in the Superannuation Acts of 1834 and 1859.