§ 12. Captain LOSEBYasked the Pensions Minister if his attention has been called to the fact that magistrates and judges are frequently embarrassed by the present pensions rule that imprisonment for a certain period of time of an ex-soldier in receipt of pension automatically deprives that soldier of pension rights; and if, in view of the fact that soldiers' pensions are now regarded as of right and not of grace, he will consider the advisability of taking steps to remove what would appear to be an anomaly?
§ The MINISTER of PENSIONS (Sir Laming Worthington-Evans)I am considering this question with others, of which it forms a part.
§ Captain LOSEBYIs it not a fact that the soldier's pension now is a right and no longer a grace?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSIt is a right, and it is not a grace, and I am considering the reaction which follows from that fact.