HC Deb 18 July 1968 vol 768 cc254-5W
16. Mr. Henry Clark

asked the Minister of Overseas Development what steps he has taken to ensure the continued payment of pensions to natives of Malawi, Pakistan and India, who were employed by Her Majesty's Government and retired from Government service in Tanganyika before 1st July, 1961.

Mr. Prentice

At the time the Tanzanian Government announced their decisions affecting pensions of officers covered by the Tanganyika Public Officers' Agreement, they indicated that they would continue to discharge their pension obligations to locally engaged officers. As far as I am aware, therefore, the pensioners of the former Government of Tanganyika to whom the hon. Member refers are to continue to receive their pensions as hitherto.

17. Mr. John Hynd

asked the Minister of Overseas Development whether he will make a statement on the annulment by Tanzania of the agreement providing for payments to Britons employed in Tanzania prior to independence.

Mr. Prentice

I would refer my hon. Friend to the Answer I gave on 20th June to Questions by my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead (Mr. Whitaker) and the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Mr. Tilney).—[Vol. 766, c.174–6.]