§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that, as a result of the Treasury Minute of 20th March, 1922, the provisions of the Superannuation Acts were altered and that many civil servants are now receiving pensions lower than those to which they are entitled; and whether he has taken the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown on the legality of modifying by a Treasury Minute the provisions of Acts of Parliament, and what the opinion was?
§ Mr. McNEILLThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative; accordingly the second part does not arise.