§ MR. CLYNES (Manchester, N.E.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware 957 that a man who has been pensioned at the rate of 22s. weekly from service at Wakefield Prison, because of incapacity through an accident, is employed periodically at the prison at 4s. per day; and whether there is any regulation or practice respecting the service of such men in receipt of a pension.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) A man is employed at Wakefield Prison who was superannuated on account of age in 1903, being then sixty-one years old. He made a claim for increased pension on account of injury sustained, but the claim was not allowed. It is a common practice at the prisons to employ pensioners as temporary officers in cases of emergency and in relief of the ordinary staff. The regulations provide that "the amount paid to each 'civil pensioner' temporary officer during any one year, together with the amount of his civil pension, must not exceed the amount of salary and emoluments on which he was pensioned."