HC Deb 19 July 1938 vol 338 c1985
45. Mr. Cassels

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is now prepared to grant additional allowances based on the total amount of pay and emoluments received at retirement under the 1909 Act to ex-employés in the Post Office services?

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury Captain Euan Wallace)

The hon. Member refers, no doubt, to the claim made by certain Post Office pensioners, who retired between 1922 and 1934, that lump-sum awards made to them on retirement in respect of bonus should be re-assessed retrospectively. This claim has been repeatedly examined, and replies on the subject were given by my predecessors on 9th April, 1935, to my hon. Friend the Member for the Norwood Division of Lambeth (Mr. Sandys), and on 18th and 23rd November last to the hon. Member for the North Division of Camberwell (Mr. Ammon). I cannot agree to re-open these awards.

Mr. Cassells

Is the Financial Secretary aware that his reply amounts to a positive breach of faith with the individuals referred to in the question; and in these circumstances is he not prepared to cause a due and proper investigation to be made?

Captain Wallace

I entirely deny the interpretation that the hon. Member has put on it. It does not amount to a breach of faith at all.