§ Mr. T. M. HEALYasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the pension of £40 16s. 8d. paid to Mrs. Eliza Silke, late matron of the Hibernian Military School, Dublin, calculated by the Treasury on a salary, with emoluments, estimated at £99 9s. 8d., or on the lower scale of £87 10s. 1d.; which figure did the War Office maintain was the true basis on which her emoluments should be calculated; what would be the pension of a Civil servant other than a teacher who served as long as Mrs. Silke at such a salary; did the War Office concur in the Treasury decision to reduce the pension to £10 16s. 8d.; and what are the Civil service rules on which the Treasury purported to act?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEMrs. Silke' s pension was based upon her reckonable emoluments of £87 10s. 1d. as returned by the War Office. The pension of any other Civil servant of the same service and salary would be of the same amount. The particular rules applicable are that the value of free quarters cannot be reckoned for pension in excess of one-sixth of an officer's salary and other pensionable emoluments, and that service cannot be included after the age of sixty-five unless the officer's retention after that age has been specially authorised under Clause 15 of the Order in Council of 10th January, 1910.