§ Sir H. CAYZERasked the Prime Minister whether there is any intention of reducing the disability and service penson rates now in force; and, if so, to what extent they are to be reduced?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThere is under consideration a revision of the scale of men's service pensions, to be applicable only to new entrants to the services, but not of disability pensions or of the disability element of combined disability and service pensions. No decision on the matter has yet been reached. As regards disability pensions of the Great War, I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the answer given by my right hon. and gallant Friend the Minister of Pensions on the 30th July, 1925, to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Southport (Sir G. Dalrymple White), of which I am sending him a copy