§ Mr. ATKEYasked the Pensions Minister whether anything can be done to increase the pension of Mr. Samuel Maltby.1, Caulton Street, Nottingham, who enlisted as a private in 1860 and served twenty-one years in the Army and retired with the rank of company sergeant-major. and whose pension is only 2s. 4d. per day; and, if not, whether he will seek to obtain for Mr. Maltby, who is seventy-seven years of age, the old age pension, which is denied to him by reason of his military pension?
§ Mr. FORSTERI have been asked to. reply to this question. I would refer my hon. Friend to the written reply given, on the 27th October, to a question asked by the hon. and gallant Member for Edmonton to the effect that, under the decision of the Government, the grant of Army pensions on the new scale is confined to those soldiers who have given satisfactory re-enlisted service during the War. Inquiry is being made as regards Mr. Maltby's eligibility for an old age pension, and I will inform my on. Friend of the result in due course.