HC Deb 08 March 1928 vol 214 cc1235-6
91. Mr. HORE-BELISHA

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, as 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 HEADLAM

For 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-BELISHA

Has not the hon. and gallant Gentleman power to make an exception in a particularly hard case of this kind?

Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM

I do not. think the case is particularly hard.