HC Deb 25 June 1913 vol 54 cc1054-5
20. Mr. CASSEL

asked when it is proposed to carry out the promise to reintroduce shortly the Bill to amend the Superannuation Acts introduced last Session?

Mr. MASTERMAN

I should be glad to introduce a Bill to amend the Superannuation Acts in certain particulars, but I fear that, unless such a measure could be regarded as entirely non-controversial, I can see no chance of its passing into law this Session.

Mr. CASSEL

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, some time ago at Question Time, promised that the Bill would be introduced? I think it was on the 1st April.

Mr. MASTERMAN

I have no objection to introducing the Bill, but last year when I introduced it the whole time was spent in irrelevant attempts to put into the Bill what was not in the Bill. If the hon. and learned Gentleman and his Friends will take the Bill as it stands, we might be able to get it through.