§ SIR G. KEKEWICHI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the old writers who have been recently discharged from the Civil Service average over seventy-five years of age and over thirty-five years service; and whether he will grant them any further gratuity beyond £100 each.
§ MR. RUNCIMANThe subject of these old writers was fully dealt with by my predecessor last year both by way of Answers in this House to Questions by my hon. friend, and by correspondence. I fully concur in the view which he took of the case, and I fear that I must decline to re-open the question.
§ SIR G. KEKEWICHCannot the right hon. Gentleman apply to these cases the precedent set in the cases of Lord Roberts and Lord Cromer?
§ [No Answer was returned.]