Mr. W. M. ADAMSONasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether any steps are being taken to bring second engineers employed on War Department vessels into the category of pensionable employés to the War Department?
§ Mr. LAWSONThe claim that second engineers on War Department vessels should be brought into the category of pensionable employés has been made by the staff side of the Whitley Committee concerned. The question involves a good many considerations, which necessarily
— 1874–75 1881–82 1891–92 1901–02 1911–12. Lakhs of Rs. Lakhs of Rs. Lakhs of Rs. Lakhs of Rs. Lakhs of Rs. Excise Revenue on spirits and drugs 234.6 342.7 511.7 611.5 1141.4 Customs Revenue on Liquors 28.9 40.7 59.0 70.8 124.6 TOTAL 263.5 383.4 570.7 682.3 1266.0 Percentage of above Total to Total Revenue of Government. 5.2 5.2 6.4 5.9 10.2* 1918–19. 1919–20. 1920–21. 1921– 1922–23. Lakhs of Rs. Lakhs of Rs. Lakhs of Rs. Lakhs of Rs. Lakhs of Rs. Excise Revenue on spirits and drugs 1733.6 1925.9 2043.7 1718.6 1855.2 Customs Revenue on Liquors 110.7 138.0 188.0 212.8 231.5 TOTAL 1844.3 2063.9 2231.7 1931.4 2086.7 Percentage of above Total to Total Revenue of Government. 10.0 10.5 10.8 10.4 10.6 * The large increase in the Excise Revenue during the decade ending 1911–12 was due not merely to the expansion of consumption which is normally greater in times of prosperity, but also to the imposition of progressively higher rates of duty and the increasingly effective control of the excise administration, leading to a continual substitution of licit for illicit consumption. The Customs duties on imported liquors during the same period were also increased substantially.