§ Commander Purseyasked the Civil Lord of the Admiralty (1) if he will state the annual amounts of the Greenwich Hospital pensions and the naval service pensions, respectively, paid to admirals, vice-admirals, rear-admirals, captains, commanders, lieutenant-commanders and lieutenants, respectively, who were cadet entries;
(2) if he will state the annual amounts of the Greenwich Hospital pensions and the naval service pensions, respectively, paid to each rank of officer promoted from the lower deck;
(3) if he will state the annual amounts of the Greenwich Hospital pensions and 36W the naval service pensions, respectively, paid to Chief petty officers, petty officers, leading ratings and ratings, respectively.
§ Mr. C. Ian Orr-EwingI regret that information about Service retired pay and pensions awarded under the normal regulations to 74,000 officers and ratings is not available in the form requested and could not be extracted without an undue expenditure of time and labour. It may be, however, that the hon. and gallant Member has in mind rather the Naval and Good Service pensions that used to be awarded to officers in certain circumstances in addition to any retired pay for which they were eligible. The practice ceased in 1949 but the tables which follow include particulars of those awarded up to 1949 that remain in issue. Ratings were not eligible for them.
For similar reasons I am unable to give an analysis of payments of Greenwich Hospital pensions to chief and petty officers and men according to their individual ratings. There are, however, about 1,000 such pensions in issue, costing some£44,000 annually.
The grant of Greenwich Hospital pensions has, since 1949, in the case of officers and since 1947 in the case of ratings, been decided without regard to the rank, rating or origin of applicants. For officers, the criteria have been their need, the nature of their misfortune and the quality of their service; for ratings, the degree of incapacity making them unfit to work and the amount of their other income.
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—— Admiral Vice-Admiral Rear Admiral Captain Commander Lieutenant-Commander Lieutenant Warrant Ranks Total No. Award Amount No. Award Amount No. Award Amount No. Award Amount No. Award Amount No. Award Amount No. Award Amount No. Award Amount No. Annual Amount £ s. £ s. £ s. £ s. £ s. £ s. £ s. £ s. £ s. GREENWICH HOSPITAL PENSION Cadet Entry — — — — — — 8 455 0 5 351 0 3 215 0 — — — — 16 1,021 0 Ex-Lower Deck — — — — — — — — 14 931 0 65 4,741 0 45 3,187 0 36 2,668 0 160 11,527 0 Others — — — — — — 2 144 0 1 68 0 1 50 0 — — — — 4 262 0 (Chaplain) 180 12,810 0 NAVAL PENSIONS Cadet Entry — — — — 1 123 4 5 381 15 6 414 8 1 61 12 — — — — 13 980 19 Others — — — — — — 2 139 14 1 61 12 — — — — — — 3 201 6 15 1,182 5 GOOD SERVICE PENSIONS Cadet Entry 2 470 8 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 2 470 8 Others — — 1 224 0 — — — — — — — — — — — — 1 224 0 NOTE: R.M. Officers have been included according to their relative naval rank.
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