§ 1. Colonel YATEasked the Secretary of State for India whether, considering the number of officers in the Indian public services who may wish to retire in the event of the present Montagu-Chelmsford Indian reform scheme becoming law and the announcement by the Government of India that an officer finding his position unendurable should be entitled to apply to the Government of India for a proportionate pension, he will now state what are to be the proportionate pensions to which these officers will be entitled?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)My hon. and gallant Friend is basing himself on assumptions and prophecies. I have come to no decision as to the Government of India's proposal.