§ MR. HANBURYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he can now say whether the rate of compensation or compassionate allowance in the case of persons killed or injured in the Government employment at the Ordnance Factories can be increased by the Treasury without further previous Parliamentary sanction; and what are the powers of the Treasury in this respect?
§ *SIR J. T. HIBBERT (who replied)said: The powers of the Treasury are laid down, as regards compensation or compassionate allowances in the case of person killed or injured at the Ordnance Factories, in the Warrant of September, 1887, framed in pursuance of Section 1 of the Superannuation Act of that year, and those powers cannot be extended without further legislation.
§ MR. HANBURYBut is it not the fact that in the case of the allowances made to the widows of the men killed at Waltham, the Treasury can, without going to Parliament for extra powers, increase the sum?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTOnly within the limits of the Warrant.
§ COLONEL LOCKWOOD (Essex, Epping)How is it that these widows only got pensions of 5s. or 6s. a week instead of a sum equal to the pay received by their husbands?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTThat question should be addressed to the War Office.
§ MR. HANBURYHas the maximum under the Warrant been allowed to the relatives of the men who were killed recently at Waltham Abbey?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTI cannot say.