§ 91. Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, as 1236 an act of grace and not as a precedent, he will reconsider the case of certain station engineers in the Admiralty generating stations with regard to establishment and allow them to count their time in full for pension purposes before the actual date of their establishment, seeing that there is a case of an officer who has held a supervisory post for 17 years, 10 of which were in the capacity of an acting officer, unestablished, whilst others of less service in co-ordinate posts have been established?
§ Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAMFor the reasons given in my reply to the hon. Member on the 18th November last (OFFICIAL REPORT, columns 1291–1292), I regret that it is not possible to make any exception to the general service rule in regard to establishment in favour of the officers to whom the hon. Member refers.
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAHas not the hon. and gallant Gentleman power to make an exception in a particularly hard case of this kind?
§ Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAMI do not. think the case is particularly hard.