Captain FABERasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether his Department is prepared to include the artificers of the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, in the pension scheme mentioned in the circular issued on 5th December, 1906; and whether it is intended to abolish or reduce the system whereby seven and a-half years is deducted from the period of service entitling them to a pension?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe answer to the first part is in the negative—the second does not arise.