§ 93. Mr. TOOTILLasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that any Civil servant retiring at a later date than March, 1915, was given an advantage over his senior colleagues who retired in 1914 and previous years; whether any man retiring since 1915 has been allowed, because of the greatly increased cost of living, to count 25 per cent. of his war bonus in calculating his pay for pension purposes; whether six or seven different war bonus awards have been made during the past three years; whether each award has been considerably higher than that which preceded it; whether the award in 1919 was £60 a year plus 20 per cent. of an officer's pre-war salary, as against a bonus of 2s. per week in March, 1915; whether the officer retiring in 1919 is considered to be treated equally with his colleagues who retired in 1918, 1917, 1916, 1915, and 1914; and whether, as the increase in the cost of living affects all these men to an equal degree, he will endeavour to find an equitable basis which shall be applicable to them all?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe details of the arrangement referred to were stated by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in reply to the hon. Member for the Devonport Division on the 16th April last. It is the case that there have been numerous awards of war bonus at increasing rates during the last four years, and as the principle of the arrangement with regard to pension is that within certain limits war bonus shall be included in the calculation, it follows that the increases of war bonus are reflected in the awards of pension