§ Colonel ASHLEYasked the Pensions Minister whether he is in a position to make any modification of the rule whereby a disabled warrant officer or non-commissioned officer who is in receipt of a life pension earned by long service may not draw the full disablement pension for his rank unless he foregoes his service pension, and only permits him, as an alternative, to draw disablement pension at the private's rate?
§ Sir J. CRAIGThe rule under which a warrant officer or non-commissioned officer in receipt of a life pension for long service is not allowed to receive for disablement more than the private's rate of disablement pension is based on the principle that he should not twice receive an extra grant for his higher rank.