§ Major COHENasked the First Lord of the Admiralty the total number of civil servants engaged in his Department on the work of retired pay and pensions of the Navy and Marines, including the framing of regulations, the payment of pensions, administration, etc.; how many of these officials are employed at the Admiralty; how many at Greenwich Hospital; if other Admiralty officials are engaged on similar duties in other Government buildings and, if so, how many, and where; and the total annual cost of the work involved as apart from the annual cost of the retired pay and pensions?
§ Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAMThere are 42 officials wholly engaged on this work, of whom 41 are employed in the Admiralty and one in Greenwich Hospital. There are no other Admiralty officials engaged on similar duties in other Government buildings. The approximate annual cost of the salaries and wages of these officials together with the 1007W appropriate portion of the salaries and wages of other officials partly engaged on this work is £17,000.
§ Major COHENasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how many officials and members of the subordinate staff of the Paymaster-General are engaged upon the administration of retired pay and pensions of the officers, warrant officers, widows and dependents of the fighting Services; and if he will state the total cost annually of the work involved as apart from the annual cost of the retired pay and pensions?
§ Mr. RONALD McNEILLThere axe 39 officers wholly engaged on the payment of these pensions. The total annual cost of the salaries and wages of this staff, together with the appropriate proportion of the salaries and wages of the officials partly engaged on the work in question, is £9,979. These figures do not include the work in connection with the payment of War pensions to officers and nurses on behalf of the Ministry of Pensions, the separate figures for which are: Number of staff, 88; annual cost, £25,390.