§ 58. Mr. William Brownasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the amount per annum of the present non-effective 201 Vote of the Civil Service; and by how much this amount would be increased if pensions were adjusted to present cost of living?
§ Sir J. AndersonI assume that what my hon. Friend wishes to know is the total amount provided in this year's Estimates for Civil Service pensions, disregarding non-recurrent payments and injury grants. On this basis the answer to the first part of his Question is approximately £8,500,000. If for the sake of convenience the increase in the cost of living since the war is taken as 30 per cent., a corresponding increase of these pensions would cost about £2,500,000 per annum.