Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Naval and Military Pensions and Grants. – in the House of Commons at on 31 July 1923.
I am not aware of any exact precedent for the provision to which my hon. and learned Friend refers, nor am I aware of any precedent for the circumstances giving rise to it. In view of the fact that, by Article 7 of the Heads of Working Arrangements, His Majesty's Government agreed in principle to this provision on the ground that the rights in question were in fact unenforceable and were to be and have been replaced by rights which are enforceable, my Noble Friend the Secretary of State is not prepared to make any representations such as are suggested in the last part of the question.