§ 32. Colonel Wheatleyasked the UnderSecretary of State for India if he will make a statement regarding the security of the pensions of the Bengal Government's non-Asiatic servants.
§ Mr. A. HendersonIt is intended to negotiate agreements in regard to matters arising out of the transfer of power in India with the representatives of those to whom it is decided that power shall be transferred. One of the questions to be dealt with in these negotiations will be the method of assuring the payment of service pensions, including those to which the hon. and gallant Member refers. I have no reason to suppose that the obligations to pensioners will not be fully recognised by those to whom power is transferred.