§ Resolution reported, "That it is expedient to amend the Superannuation Acts, and to make further provision out of the moneys to be provided by Parliament for the grant of superannuation and other allowances and gratuities to persons who have forfeited their right thereto by reason of transfer to non-pensionable service, and for the increase of this amount of superannuation and other allowances and gratuities payable in cases to which Section 12 of the Superannuation Act, 1834, or Section 7 of the Superannuation Act, 1887, apply, and for the payment of weekly disablement allowances in substitution for gratuities and additional allowances in certain cases."
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution."
§ Mr. JAMES HOPEI do not wish to oppose this Resolution, but if I have no other way of putting myself in order I shall move the Adjournment of the Debate, in order that I may simply ask the Government whether they propose to take any other business?
§ Mr. JAMES HOPEIf that is agreed, then I will not press the Motion for the Adjournment of the Debate.
§ Mr. MALCOLMMay I ask the Secretary to the Treasury will he tell us something about this piece of paper which contains the Resolution1? It is the most undignified document that has ever come out of the Vote Office. There is nothing to show it is a Parliamentary Paper; there is no name of a printer or any human being, and there is no authorisation attached to it. Really something ought to be done to indicate that this is a Parliamentary Paper; as it is, it is a most slipshod way of doing business.
§ Mr. MASTERMANI have not made inquiry into the matter. In reply to the hon. Gentleman (Mr. James Hope), as I have already indicated, it is not proposed to take any other business.
§ Mr. SPEAKERWith regard to the paper referred to by the hon. Member for Croydon, I understand it was printed for the convenience of the hon. Member himself.
§ Earl WINTERTONIt was printed because no one on the Government Bench knew anything about it last night.
§ Mr. SPEAKERIt was printed in the usual form, according to the Standing Order; that is to say, no notice was given of the Resolution when it was read for the first time. The Committee then agreed to it, and the Resolution appears in the Votes and Proceedings to-day. It is perfectly in order according to the Standing Order.
§ Mr. MALCOLMI had no idea that was so, but, even so, would it not be advisable in the future that it should bear some indication that it was authorised by Parliament to be printed, and that it is paid for by Parliament.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Bill ordered to be brought in by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Masterman. Presented accordingly, and read the first time; to be read a second time upon Monday next (4th November).