HC Deb 16 December 1957 vol 580 c20W
97. Mr. Swingler

asked the Minister of Supply the basic conditions for the payment of gratuities to Royal Ordnance factory workers on retirement on account of age, ill-health, or redundancy; when these conditions were laid down; and to what extent they differ from the Regulations previously in force.

Mr. Aubrey Jones

These employees are civil servants, and the payments which may be made to them are governed by the Superannuation Acts, 1834–1957, which apply to both industrial and non-industrial civil servants. The provisions of the Acts and Regulations made under them cannot conveniently be summarised within the scope of an Answer to a Parliamentary Question, but I am sending the hon. Member a statement of the main facts and I should be glad to give him any further information he may require.