COLONEL LOCKWOODI beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office if, in view of the dangerous character of the work undertaken at the Government Factories at Waltham Abbey, he is prepared to revise the pension scheme now in force?
§ MR. WOODALLSufficient time has not elapsed to ascertain the particulars of the cases in question, and the Secretary of State, therefore, has not been able to consider the adequacy of the pensions to which, under present rules, the widows of the men killed will be entitled. When the particulars are before him he will fully consider the subject.
COLONEL LOCKWOODIs the hon. Gentleman aware that the compensation 810 paid by the Government to the relatives of the victims of the last explosion was so inadequate in amount that it had to be supplemented from private sources?
§ MR. WOODALLsaid, he would be sorry to say anything against private benevolence; but he could not assent to the proposition of the hon. and gallant Gentleman, that the grants were inadequate.