Colonel Crosthwaite-Evreasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies in view of the terms of Article 1 (c) of the Anglo-Israeli Financial Agreement, who is responsible for the payment of pensions due to former officials of the mandatory Government resident outside Israel.
§ Mr. J. GriffithsLiability for payment of all such pensions is at present accepted by His Majesty's Government. This is in accordance with the assurances given by His Majesty's Government in the statement made to the House by the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies on 1st March, 1948. The assurances were that before termination of the Mandate, the expatriate officers of the Palestine Government would receive the compensation and statutory benefits to which they were entitled and that, pending the establishment of successor States which, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, are capable of taking over the liability, the non-expatriate staff should, so far as may be practicable, receive the payments due to them.