§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKEasked the President of the Board of Education whether, in view of the increased cost of living, ho will consider the possibility of giving a bonus to those teachers who entered the teaching profession before 1862 and whose pensions amount to £25 per annum; and whether he is aware that these teachers are a rapidly diminishing number and that the cost to the State would be comparatively small?
§ Mr. HERBERT FISHERI presume the hon. Member refers to teachers who are in receipt of pensions of £20, £25, and £30, respectively, under the Code of Regulations for Public Elementary Schools. These pensions have recently been in creased each by £10 under the Board's Minute of the 25th February, 1918, of which I am sending the hon. Member a copy.