§ Mr. Matherasked the Minister for the Civil Service why a concession made to 1939–1945 personnel, in the matter of recognition of service for pension purposes, cannot be extended to those of 1914–1918; and why a distinction has been drawn between these two categories.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThose who entered the Civil Service during the 1939– 45 war did so in an unestablished capacity and if subsequently established became eligible to reckon that service as to one-half for pension. The concession in Section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1946 to allow pre-entry Armed Forces service to reckon as unestablished service removed a potential anomaly between those who entered during the war and those whose entry was delayed by war service. Since unestablished service does not reckon before 1919 for those who entered the Civil Service during the 1914–18 war, an anomaly would be created if forces service during that war, which would in any event be very difficult to authenticate, since the bulk of the records were destroyed by fire during the 1939–45 war, were now to reckon.