Sir F. HALLasked the Secretary of State for War whether ex-soldier clerks engaged at the War Office are granted a pension for performance of their duties; if not, will he say on what grounds it is refused; and whether all permanent civil clerks who are not ex-soldiers, and who carry out precisely the same duties as the ex-soldier clerk, are on a pensionable basis?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply which I gave yesterday to a similar question by the hon. and gallant Member for Central Wandsworth, and to the answer also given yesterday by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the hon. Member for Wood Green.