§ Major BOYD-CARPENTERasked the Minister of Pensions whether the rate of pay which is awarded as the basic rate of retired pay to a regular officer with insufficient qualifying service for the earning of retired pay in the normal way, and who is compulsorily retired on account of wounds or ill-health contracted on active service, and who may be in receipt of a permanent pension for such disability, is equal to one-half pay of his rank; and whether this assessment is based on the 1914 scale of pay?
§ Major TRYONUnder the Warrant of the 1st August, 1917, the basic rate was the disability retired pay in the 1914 Pay Warrant, the minimum being the half-pay of the rank. Under the current Warrant of the 2nd July, 1920, the regulation is different; the basic rate is that shown in Part II of the First Schedule of that Warrant, and is on a scale graduated by service and rank, and is not a half-pay rate at all. Possibly the hon. and gallant Member is thinking of cases of officers with wound pensions, who may receive, as a reserved right, the disability retired pay on the 1914 scale (the minimum being the half-pay of that date) in addition to wound pension.