§ Mr. CASSELasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that A. Ballard, of 2, Carlow Street, N.W., who served in the Metropolitan police from 1858 to 1879, when he was obliged to leave owing to injuries received while on duty, is in receipt of a pension of £41 12s. instead of the usual pension of £78 5s.; whether he was awarded £20 by Sir A. de Rutzen in 1907 in consideration of the injuries sustained by him; and, if so, why this has not been paid?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe case of ex-Police-Constable Ballard has repeatedly been before my predecessors since the year 1879, and has been fully considered. He received the full pension on the ordinary scale, and, as the medical referees advised that there was no connection between the illness which unfitted him for service and an injury on duty sustained some ten years previously, there was no power specially to increase the amount. It is not the case that any award was made to Ballard by Sir Albert de Rutzen; but a grant of £5 was given him in respect of the injury of 1868 by Sir John Bridge when chief magistrate. A small grant was also made him last year from police charitable funds.