asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the number of former expatriate public servants currently in receipt of pension under the Sierra Leone Order 1960 (S.I. 2415); how many of them are in receipt of indexation; and in how many cases are discretionary payments to individuals envisaged in schedule 1(1) being made under the instructions of the former governor.

131 expatriate officers are in receipt of a pension under the Sierra Leone Order 1960 (S.I. 2415). All but two are in receipt of an index-linked supplementary pension. It is not known how many, if any, of these pensions were awarded in accordance with the discretionary provision of schedule 1(1) of the scheme. The information could be retrieved only at disproportionate cost.