§ Mr. R. Gibsonasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the rise in the cost of living, he has considered the urgent necessity of increasing the pensions of the lower grades of the Post Office pensioners; and whether he has any statement to make on the subject?
§ Captain CrookshankIt would not be possible to increase the pensions of retired civil servants without legislation, and as I stated in my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Deritend (Sir Smedley Crooke) on 23rd July, I cannot undertake to introduce legislation for this purpose.