§ Major POLEasked the Secretary of State for India the number of persons in this country drawing pensions from each of the gazetted Indian services in the year ended 31st March, 1931; and the cost of these pensions to the Indian revenues?
§ Sir S. HOAREThe number of pensions issued in this country to retired members of the Indian Services (Civil), and the net amounts paid in the year ended 31st March, 1931, in respect of these pensions, were as follow:
— Number. Amount. £ Indian Civil Service 769 670,880 Judges of the High Courts 41 46,815 Bengal Pilot Service 34 11,942 Bishops of Madras and Bombay. 2 1,600 Uncovenanted Services 2,527 973,620 Total 3,373 £1,704,857