§ 58. Mr. BENNETT-GOLDNEYasked the Secretary for War if he will use his influence with the Treasury to induce those responsible for the Estimates for the next financial year to include a sufficient sum to permit all Government Departments concerned to allow ex-sailors and ex-soldiers of good character to count their years of service in the Navy or Army for pension with their subsequent years of service in the less onerous Civil service, so that British sailors and soldiers will be placed on an equal footing with Civil servants with regard to pension, and so that the recommendation of the Committee appointed by 1701 the War Office to report upon this question may be carried out?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI regret to be unable to adopt this suggestion.