§ Sir K. WOODasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he will consider the desirability of establishing a pension scheme for the benefit of the masters and navigating and engineer officers of those vessels attached to the Navy known as the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service; whether a memorial to this effect has been addressed by these officers to the Admiralty; and whether such a scheme will now be adopted?
§ Mr. AMMONIn certain of the Royal Fleet Auxiliaries employed on harbour duties and manned under dockyard agreement the master and 1st class engineers are already included on the pensionable establishment of the Admiralty dockyards. The personnel of the remaining Royal Fleet Auxiliaries is engaged and serves under ordinary Board of Trade agreements and their masters and officers who receive the standard mercantile rates of pay are subject to 607W the ordinary conditions of that service. These conditions render them ineligible for the ordinary establishmfent privileges of employés in the Government service. No recent memorial on this subject has been received.