Captain COOPERasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture if he would state by what authority the Director-General of the Ordnance Survey issued an order deducting the military pension and Reserve pay from the scale rates of pay of all ex-Royal Engineers serving in his Department?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of AGRICULTURE (Sir Edward Strachey)It has for very many years past been the practice to take into account military pensions when fixing the pay of ex-Royal Engineers employed on the Ordnance Survey. The Director-General, when he issued the order mentioned, exercised the authority of long usage handed down to him by his predecessors. The Committee which it is proposed to appoint to inquire into the pay of employés on the Ordnance Survey will no doubt consider and report upon the existing arrangement.