HC Deb 16 December 1968 vol 775 c276W
123. Mr. Goodhart

asked the Minister of Overseas Development which Commonwealth countries have defaulted on the payment of retirement pensions to former members of the Colonial Service; and which Commonwealth countries have not raised the pension rate payable during the past four years.

Mr. Oram

Zanzibar defaulted in 1964 and Tanzania in 1968. The following Commonwealth countries have not granted increases in pension during the past four years:—

Antigua. Malaysia.
Bahamas. Malawi.
Botswana. Mauritius.
Cyprus. Nigeria.
Fiji. Pakistan.
Gambia. Sierra Leone.
Ghana. Singapore.
Guyana. Tanzania.
Kenya. Zambia.
Lesotho.

Mr. Tilney

asked the Minister of Overseas Development whether he will show in table form the number of pensioners, who were engaged from overseas and not locally and who are in receipt of pensions in respect of their service with quasi-Government bodies in the ex-Colonial territories, providing details Colony by Colony; and what estimate he has made of the cost of paying them supplements as laid down in the 1962 and 1965 Pensions Increase Acts.

Mr. Oram

I have not sufficient information on which to base reliable estimates of the numbers of these pensioners. As regards cost, I have nothing to add to the Reply I gave to the hon. Member for Essex, South-East (Mr. Braine) on 5th December.—[Vol. 774, c. 549.]