§ 66. Mr. HOFFMANasked the Secretary of State for War if he will consider the desirability of granting to men in receipt of pension under Article 1,163 of the Royal Warrant a 1914, the age increases in pension at 55 and 65 granted to men in receipt of service pension awarded after the issue of Army Order 325 of 1919?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the WAR OFFICE (Mr. Sanders)Pensions under Article 1,163 of the Royal Warrant of 1914 are only given to soldiers who enlisted while the 1914 code was still in force and who prove to be ineligible for any award on the Great War or post-War scale. Such men, who would otherwise be ineligible for any pension, are given the benefit of the 1914 code, but I regret that I am unable to grant them in addition the increases for age which are only permissible under the later codes.