§ 113. Mr. HAYESasked the Home Secretary whether he will state the percentage value of wages for superannuation purposes of police officers in 1914 under the Police Act, 1890, and prior to the compilation of the memorandum furnished by the Government Actuary to the Geddes Committee in 1922?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)I am not sure that I quite understand the hon. Member's question. The value of the pension rights was, of course, increased by the grant of widows' pensions in 1918, but I am not in a position to give the percentage of pay which this increase represents. Apart from the widows' pensions, I think the hon. Member may take it that the value of the pension rights, reckoned as a percentage of pay, enjoyed by police serving immediately prior to the commencement of the Police Pensions Act, 1921, differs but little from the corresponding rights enjoyed in 1914, assuming, of course, that the maximum pension scale permissible under the Act of 1890 applies in both cases and the rateable deductions are at the rate of 2 ½ per cent.