Viscountess ASTORasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can give any undertaking that the pensions of dockyard men now retiring from the service shall he brought up to the scale laid down in the proposals dealing with pre-War pensioners?
§ Mr. AMMONI regret that I am not in a position to give the undertaking asked for. The rules under which dockyard pensions are assessed apply to the Civil Service as a whole, and I am not prepared to recommend that exceptional treatment in the matter should be accorded to employés in His Majesty's Dockyards.