63. Mr. Creech Jonesasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will consider raising the minimum weekly pay of Government messengers to 53s. instead of the present 47s. 6d., in view of the fact that the necessaries of healthy life cannot be provided at less than 53s. a week for an urban worker with a wife and three children, as is established by Mr. Seebohm Rowntree's recent survey entitled "The Human Needs of Labour," based on the standard laid down by the British Medical Association Committee of 1933?
§ Lieut. Colonel ColvilleI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Romford (Mr. Parker) on 6th May.
§ 64. Mr. Jaggerasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is prepared to permit Government Departments to provide pensions for Government messengers in the same way as local authorities are permitted, under the Local Government Superannuation Bill of this year, to provide pensions for servants?
§ Lieut.-Colonel ColvilleI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 8th July.
§ Mr. JaggerDoes the Financial Secretary realise that the way to stop me from asking this question is to make these officers eligible for pensions?
§ Lieut.-Colonel ColvilleI think my hon. Friend knows that one grade is already eligible for pensions and that members of the other grade are eligible for promotion.