§ Major HORE-BELISHAasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury with reference to the curtailment and variation of Civil Service pensions enforced in pursuance of the executive order known as the Treasury Minute of the 20th March, 1922, upon what authority, statutory or otherwise, the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury base their claim to enforce that order; and, if such claim is based upon their general powers under the Superannuation Acts, whether he will state in which sections of these Acts those general powers are embodied?
Mr. GRAHAMThe Treasury Minute was issued in consequence of undertakings given to the House of Commons as the result of a strong desire expressed on both sides of the House upon a Motion for the reduction of a Supplementary Estimate for superannuation services, and was in accordance with an Agreement on the National Whitley Council. The discretionary powers of the Treasury on superannuation questions generally are contained in Section 30 of the Superannuation Act, 1634, Section 2 of the Superannuation Act, 1559, Section 9 of the Superannuation Act, 1887, and Section 4 of the Superannuation Act, 1909.