§ SIR HENRY KIMBER (Wandsworth)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether the Army Council have considered and approved or disapproved the recommendations of paragraphs 43 and 317 44 of the Report of Sir Edward Ward's Committee, recommending that service in the Army or the Navy, Succeeded by employment in the Civil Service, should count towards pension in the latter service; and whether the present difficulty in recruiting would to a great extent be relieved if those recommendations were carried out, and soldiers and sailors knew, on enlistment, that their Army or Navy service would count towards pension if by good conduct they were eligible for, and transferred into, Civil Service employment on discharge.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) May I refer the hon. Baronet to the Answer given by my hon. friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to a similar question put by the hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets on the 3rd February last? I am afraid that I can add nothing thereto.