§ Sir A. SHIRLEY BENNasked the Secretary to the Admiralty how many dockyard pensioners are resident in Plymouth; and if on some of them volunteering to go back and work they were informed that 314W the money paid to them as pensions would be deducted from the wages earned for working?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAThe figures requested by my hon. Friend are not readily available. As regards the latter part of the question, the position is not quite as suggested, as a workman employed in a dockyard receives the full wages appropriate to his grade of employment. Section 20 of the Superannuation Act, 1834, prescribes, however, that a pensioner re-employed by the Government shall receive only so much of his pension as together with his re-employed wages equal his rate of remuneration prior to retirement, or should his re-employed wages equal or exceed his formal remuneration, then no portion of the pension is payable. War bonus and overtime are excluded for the purpose of applying the Section.