§ 61. Mr. RAMSBOTHAMasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how many civil servants employed by the Post 1104 Office have within the last 20 years voluntarily resigned after 20 years', 15 years', 10 years', and five years' service, respectively; whether all these men have been deprived of any payment of any sort in respect of gratuity or superannuation; whether the propriety of withholding these payments under such conditions as these has been considered by his Department; and, if so, when, and with what result?
§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCEI am informed by the Postmaster-General that the information asked for in the first part of the question is not available. With regard to the second and third parts of the question, the statutory conditions for an award of a gratuity or a pension under the Superannuation Acts would not be fulfilled if the service were terminated by purely voluntary retirement, and accordingly the answers to both these parts are in the negative. The last part of the question does not arise.
§ Mr. RAMSBOTHAMHas the hon. Gentleman received any representations from the Postmaster-General on this subject?
§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCEI do not think so.