§ 1. Mr. KINGasked the Secretary of State for India when he expects to give an account of his recent visit to India, and to state what changes are proposed in connection with the Government of India?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Herbert Fisher)I would ask the hon. Member to be good enough to defer his question until the Secretary of State for India's return from India. He is expected back next month. I am sorry not to be able to be more precise as to the date.
§ 3. Colonel YATEasked the Secretary of State for India whether the money that has hitherto been deducted from the deferred pay of unemployed officers of the Indian Army of thirty-two years' service and over who have undertaken work as censors at the Central Telegraph Office and other places has been credited to the revenues of India or to what?
§ Mr. FISHERThe hon. and gallant Member presumably refers to the difference between the unemployed pay of Indian Army officers and the amount issued to them by the India Office when they are employed by the War Office as censors. The difference in question accrues in the first instance to Indian revenues, but is eventually credited to Imperial funds in connection with other financial adjustments.
§ 4. Colonel YATEasked undo what warrant, rule, or Regulation commissioned officers of the Indian Army, compulsorily retained in the Service after their full pensions have become due, can not draw that pension?
§ Mr. FISHERThere is no warrant, rule, of Regulation under which an officer holding His Majesty's commission can claim retirement at any particular time, and the power of the Secretary of State to suspend or limit retirement temporarily whenever it may appear to him necessary to do so in the interests of the public service is indicated in paragraph 710 of Army Regulations, India, Vol. 1.