Mr. BECKETTasked the Home Secretary the approximate average age on retirement of policemen in receipt of pensions and the average duration of such pensions?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSThe information asked for by the hon. Member is not available for police forces generally, but in the Metropolitan Police the average age of those who retired during 1925–26 was 46.81 years, and the average duration of pension in the cases of pensioners dying during that year was 19.93 years.