Captain FABERasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that a pensioned sergeant receiving less than 14s. a week is not eligible for an old age pension, whereas a pensioned private soldier on 7s. a week is eligible, thus making a pensioned sergeant hardly better off than a private, he can see his way to equalising matters by allowing a sergeant slightly more?
§ Colonel SEELYThe reply is in the negative. The pensioned sergeant has been in a much better financial position1348W than the private from the date of his discharge until he attained seventy years of age. It is not considered that the circumstances stated by the hon. and gallant Member would justify a complete revision of the scales of pensions.