asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why he has not followed the precedent of calculation for war service for the purposes of pension for the Civil Service to enable war service in the Armed Forces to count for police pension purposes.

The agreement recently reached by the Police Council follows the Civil Service precedent in allowing police officers who joined before 30th June 1950 to count for police pension purposes half their war service in the Armed Forces, the Merchant Navy, the mercantile marine and any of the women's Services listed in Schedule 4 to the Superannuation Act 1965.