92. Colonel BURNasked the Secretary of State for India if he will consider the case of those officials of the State railways of India who are 60 years of age, and who were retired before the War on a pension or were given a lump sum on completion of their service, and who find it quite impossible to exist on that pension or the interest of the invested money at the present time?
§ Mr. PARKER (Lord of the Treasury)My right hon. Friend is considering whether it would be proper to grant some relief from Indian revenues to retired officers of the Government of India similar to that recently announced by His Majesty's Government for pensioners of the Imperial service, but pensioners residing in India must be considered as well as those in this country, and in any event it would be difficult to justify in the case of the latter any relaxation of the income limits applicable to officers of the Imperial service.