§ MR. MILDMAY (Devonshire, Totnes)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether, seeing that the recipients of old-age pensions will be paid weekly, he will consider the desirability of arranging that all other persons at present in receipt of Government pensions payable through the Post Office shall be paid weekly.
§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTONPost Office pensioners in receipt of pensions of less than £80 a year already have the option of weekly payment if they received weekly wages before superannuation. All other Post Office pensioners are paid monthly or quarterly, and I do not propose to alter this arrangement. Army and Navy pensioners are paid at Post Offices by means of Money Orders issued monthly or quarterly by the War Office and the Admiralty. I am not, of course, responsible, in the case of these pensions, for anything beyond the cashing of the Orders, and have no control over the period of payment.