§ MR. SLOAN (Belfast, S.)To ask the Secretary of State for War if he will state whether any applications for the allowance of £1 for each year's service since 1898 to which a soldier is entitled on discharge have been refused.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) Article 1,123 of the Pay Warrant gives 1035 a gratuity of £1 a year on transfer to the reserve or discharge, under certain conditions, and there is naturally no record of a refusal to give the gratuity when the conditions have been fulfilled.