HC Deb 14 July 1955 vol 543 cc204-6W
Brigadier Clarke

asked the Minister of Defence, in view of the representations made that Her Majesty's Government should honour the undertaking given to officers of the Armed Services who retired under the 1919 Code that their retired pay would be varied with the cost of living not only downwards but also upwards to an extent not exceeding 20 per cent., what steps he is taking in order to bring this about.

Mr. Selwyn Lloyd

The circumstances in which officers' pensions were stabilised in 1935 are set out in Cmd. 9092. As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer indicated in reply to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for New Forest (Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre) on 12th July, Her Majesty's Government are keeping the whole question of pensions increase under review.