§ Lieut.-Colonel JAMESasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that the Sirdar and Governor-General of the Soudan has received a number of petitions from ex-members of the Sudan civil service asking that their pensions might be increased; and, if so, whether the form of these petitions has been laid before him; and whether he is prepared to recommend that favourable consideration should be given to any cases which prove genuine hardship?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODThe reply to the first part of the hon. and gallant Member's question is in the negative, and consequently the second and third parts do not arise.