§ SIR SAMUEL SCOTTTo ask the Secretary of State for War whether, if one man joins the Civil Service at the age of nineteen, and another joins the Army at the same age and obtains, on his discharge at the age of twenty-six, a Civil Service appointment, and both men, their total service to the State being equal, are superannuated at the age of sixty, the first man, whose service has been entirely civil, receives the maximum pension of forty-sixtieths of his total salary, while the other man, not being able to count his military service, receives only thirty-four sixtieths of his total salary; and, if this is so, whether, in view 1139 of the fact that the man who gives military service to the State undertakes far greater responsibilities and dangers, military service will be allowed to count towards pension.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) Will the hon. Baronet kindly refer to the reply given by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to a Question put on this subject on 15th May, by the hon. Member for Shoreditch?†