§ Sir C. YATEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India if it is now proposed to bring the recommendations of the Lee Commission into operation without further delay and whether these recommendations will be adopted in full, including those relating to the medical service?
§ Mr. RICHARDSI am not yet in a position to make any statement on this subject. My Noble Friend the Secretary of State is still in correspondence with the Government of India on certain points, and both he and that Government are desirous that orders on the Report should be issued with the least possible delay.
§ Lieut.-Colonel POWNALLasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, in the event of the Government accepting the Lee Commission's recommendation to raise the ordinary uncovenanted service pension by 1,000 rupees 327W per annum, the proportionate pension, which is a proportion of the full pension, will be similarly raised; and, if not, if officers who have retired since April, 1924, on proportionate pensions may draw the ordinary pension which they have earned instead of the proportionate pension?
§ Mr. RICHARDSI regret that, until final decisions on the recommendations of Lord Lee's Commission have been settled, it is impossible to make any statement as to questions consequentially contingent.