§ 15. Colonel YATEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what sum is saved annually to the Treasury by the amounts deducted under the Superannuation Act from the retired pay of officers of the Navy and Army who hold Civil appointments under Government or any public Department?
§ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Lloyd George)As the hon. and gallant Member is aware, the actual deductions are made not from the retired pay, but from the Civil emoluments. They, therefore, affect a very large number of separate Civil votes, and the precise figures for which he asks could only be obtained at the expense of a disproportionate amount of labour. I may, however, refer him to the Annual Return for 1912–13 (House of Commons Paper 238).