§ Sir ARTHUR SHIRLEY BENNasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in the case of a pensioner going back to 787W work in a dockyard during the War, the Paymaster-General, in arriving at the amount to be deducted from the pension, treated the war bonus as wages, and consequently deducted from the pension a larger sum than he otherwise would; whether this course was altered on 1st April last and the war bonus excluded; and if, under these circumstances, the Government can see their way to authorise the repayment to pensioners of the amount of pension deducted prior to April, 1918, on account of the war bonus having been included in the calculation?
§ Mr. BALDWINI am afraid that I cannot undertake to give further retrospective effect to the liberal concession already made in this matter by the Treasury.