§ 24 and 25. Mr. Tilneyasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) what he estimates would be the total cost of raising the pensions of retired members, widows and orphans of Her Majesty's Overseas Service or Colonial Service who have served in Sierra Leone to bring them into line with those granted to similar classes of pensioners in the United Kingdom;
(2) what he estimates would be the total cost of raising the pensions of retired members, widows and orphans of Her Majesty's Overseas Service or Colonial Service who have served in Nigeria to bring them into line with those granted to similar classes of pensioners in the United Kingdom.
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§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe pensions increases granted to retired officers by the Governments of the Federation of Nigeria and Sierra Leone are already comparable with those granted to similar classes of United Kingdom officers. Exact estimates of the cost of granting similar increases to dependants' pensions could not be made without a great deal of work. I am advised that very approximately an additional£450,000 would have to be found for the Nigerian Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Fund and perhaps one tenth of that amount for the Sierra Leone Fund.