§ 29. Mr. BENNETT-GOLDNEYasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, when the War Office made their request to the Treasury, that in the case of soldiers of the Regular Army, or of sailors in the Royal Navy, leaving without pension and subsequently entering the Civil service of the Crown, their years of active service in the Army or Navy should count for pension in the Civil services, any approximate estimate was prepared or given as the probable cost of the removal of the present hardship felt in both branches of the militant services; and, if no such estimate was arrived at, whether he will now take steps to have one prepared?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. No close estimate could he given without very elaborate investigations which I am not prepared to undertake, but I consider that the cost cannot safely be put at less than £75,000 a year.