Mr. Jenningsasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will give an estimate of the extra cost to the Exchequer, per annum, of giving to all retired teachers the same rates of pension as if they had retired on 1st January, 1955, instead of on their actual respective dates of retirement.
§ Sir D. EcclesI have been asked to reply.
The changes which have taken place in the education system and in the structure of the Burnham salary scales since most of the present 76,000 teacher pensioners retired make it impossible to say what pension they would have received had they retired on the 1st January, 1955.