HC Deb 07 March 1952 vol 497 cc92-5W
Mr. Summers

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide a list of all categories of pensioners dependent in whole or in part on public funds for the payment of their pensions with the dates when the present scale of pensions became operative.

Mr. Boyd-Carpenter

I regret that the preparation of a comprehensive list would involve a disproportionate expenditure of time and labour since it would have to include, for instance, pensions payable to the staff of many non-Governmental bodies which receive grants from public funds. The following are the main categories of pensioner dependent directly or indirectly on public funds.

Category of Pensioner or Description of Pension Date of operation of present pension scale
Service Pensions:
Officers in receipt of service retired pay Awards other than for attributable death or disability:—See Notes 1 and 4.
Ratings and other ranks in receipt of service pension
Officers, ratings and other ranks in receipt of disability retired pay or pension in respect of peace-time service before 3rd September, 1939.
Widows and dependants of all ranks whose death was due to peace-time service before 3rd September, 1939.
Widows and dependants of officers and certain warrant officers in receipt of "ordinary" pensions in respect of the husband's rank and length of service. Awards for attributable death or disability:—Officers: August, 1943, Ratings and other ranks. February, 1946.
Officers and other ranks in receipt of special awards such as wounds pensions, good service pensions, compassionate annuities, etc.
Certain pensioners in receipt of pensions, under special Admiralty Orders-in-Council, namely:
Riggers and Yardcraft Men See Notes 1 and 4.
Shipwrights
Hong Kong Police
Teachers in Royal Marine Schools
Officers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service
Civil Service Pensions:
Civil Servants, and certain Judicial, Diplomatic and other officers (including officers of both Houses of Parliament) to whom the Civil Service superannuation code is applied, and their dependants (Superannuation Acts, 1834–1950). See Notes 2 and 4.
Colonial and Dominion Governors, and their dependants See Notes 2 and 4.
Member of the Diplomatic Service pensioned under the Superannuation (Diplomatic Service) Act, 1869. See Note 2.
Retired and disbanded members of the Royal Irish Constabulary and their widows. See Notes 2 and 4.
Pensions charged on the Consolidated Fund:
Mr. Speaker Clifton Brown (Mr. Speaker Clifton Brown's Retirement Act, 1951). 1951.
Lord Chancellors, Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, Judges of the Supreme Court, Judges of the Court of Session, Judges of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland, County Court Judges, Metropolitan Police Magistrates, Sheriffs and Sheriff Substitutes in Scotland, Chairman and Members of the Scottish Land Court. (Administration of Justice (Pensions) Act, 1950.) 1950.
Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1929). 1929.
Judicial Commissioner of the Irish Land Commission and Recorder, Galway. (Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1922.) 1922.
Comptroller and Auditor General (Exchequer and Audit Departments Act, 1950). 1950.
Members of Royal Households See Notes 2 and 4.
Special pensions paid for services outside the United Kingdom:
Certain British police officers employed by the Mission to Greece, the High Commission in Austria or the Control Commission for Germany (Police (England & Wales) Police Pension Regulations, 1949—S.I. 1949, No. 1241). 1949.
Pensioners of the former Palestine Government not paid by the succession states. 1949.
South African Constabulary disability pensioners 1910.
European judges of the former Indian and Burman High Courts (Judges Pensions (India and Burma) Act, 1948). 1948.
Recipients of sterling pensions payable from Indian revenues (small pension increases under the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1948). 1st December, 1946.
European officers of the former Indian Services:
(a) Supplements to pension in respect of re-employment during the 1939–45 war. 19th December, 1945.
(b) Supplements to pension to officers unable to earn full pension owing to the transfer of power. 16th August, 1947.
British soldiers granted emergency commissions in the Indian Army. 19th December, 1945.
National Health Service Pensions:
National Health Service employees and general medical and dental practitioners (National Health Service Act, 1946, and Regulations made under it). See Notes 2 and 3.
Local Government Pensions:
Local Government employees generally (Local Government Superannuation Act, 1937). See Notes 2, 3 and 4.
Local Health Authority employees See Notes 2, 3 and 4,

Category of Pensioner or Description of Pension Date of operation of present pension scale
Local Government Pensions—cont.
Police officers and their dependants (Police Pension Regulations, 1949, as amended and earlier enactments). See Notes 2, 3 and 4.
Special Constables (Special Constables (Pensions) Orders, 1950 and 1952). See Notes 2, 3 and 4.
Members of Local Authority Fire Brigades (Fire Services Act, 1947, and earlier enactments). See Notes 2, 3 and 4.
Teachers (Teachers Superannuation Acts, 1918–46, and Education (Scotland) Act, 1946). See Notes 2, 3 and 4.
NOTES—
1. With the exception of awards for attributable death or disability, the rates of retired pay or pension payable are as laid down in the relative Prerogative Instrument in force at the time of retirement or discharge.
2. The rate of pension paid is determined by retiring salary and length of service.
3. Contributory occupational pension.
4. Pensioners within certain maximum income limits have had their pensions increased by a series of Pensions (Increase) Acts (and corresponding Instruments), the latest of which was passed in 1947.