§ Sir R. GOWERasked the First Lord of the Admiralty what are the terms and conditions at present in force in respect of the payment of gratuities to skippers of the Royal Naval Reserve; and whether any alteration in such terms and conditions has been made since the year 1926, and to what effect?
Sir B. EYRES MONSELLThe conditions at present in force for the payment
564Wcountries; whether there has been an increase or decrease; and the numbers for each country?
§ Sir H. BETTERTONThe following table shows, for England, Wales and Scotland, separately, the estimated number of insured persons at July, 1933 (exclusive of those insured under the special schemes for the banking and insurance industries, for which separate figures are not available for England, Wales and Scotland); the numbers of unemployed persons, insured and uninsured, on the registers of Employment Exchanges at 22nd May, 1933, and 14th May, 1934; and the decrease in the numbers unemployed between these two dates.
of discharge gratuities to skippers, Royal Naval Reserve, are laid down in Order in Council of 27th October, 1930, No. 70. This authority provides for the payment of proportionate gratuities under prescribed conditions to
- (a) officers retired or discharged on or after 1st April, 1928, and before they are entitled to the full gratuity, on account of injury or sickness which is not due to their own imprudence or misconduct;
- (b) the legal representative of any officer who may die while on the Active List as the result of injury or sickness which is not due to his own imprudence or misconduct;
- (c) any officer to whom a deferred gratuity certificate has been issued and who is unfit for further service as a result of injury or sickness which is not due to his own imprudence or misconduct;
- (d) the legal representative of any holder of a deferred gratuity certificate who may die before attaining the requisite age for the payment of the deferred gratuity.
These conditions of payment did not exist in 1926.