§ Brigadier-General SURTEESasked the Secretary of State for War whether under the recent Regulations an officer of the regular forces who retired from the Army previous to 1914, served throughout the late War and retired voluntarily after 15 years' service, is eligible to have his pension of £120 per annum increased, although he may have retirely entirely at his own wish and may have had no previous war service, whereas an officer, who also served throughout the late War and who was placed on retired pay after 10 years' service, prior to 1914, owing to ill-health caused by active service, is not eligible for an increase of pension, although his career may have been blighted by his compulsory retirement; and whether he is prepared to rectify this apparent injustice?
§ Lieut.-Colonel STANLEYAn officer of short service, retired for ill-health before 1914, got a rate of retired pay in which the two elements of service and disability were not distinguished. The new standard of service retired pay has been fixed, and where the retired pay of an officer, of the class to which the question relates, fell below that standard, it has been brought up to it. The new standard of disability pension for officers is still under consideration, and it is, consequently, not yet possible to take up the question of any further re-assessment.