§ MR. J. WILLIAMS BENN (Devonport)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether his attention has been directed to the case of John Gaskell, assistant boiler maker No. 8116, in the Keyham dockyard, who met with an accident, in the discharge of his duty, on H.M.S. "Prometheus" in June, 1904, and has been allowed by the Admiralty 4s. 3d. per week for twelve months, which allowance terminated on the 17th instant; and will he say whether this workman, after nine years' service is, in view of all the circumstances of the case, entitled to further compensation.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) The grant of further compensation depends on the result of the medical examination which, in accordance with the instructions issued when the allowance was granted, has been made. The Report was received on the 27th instant, and will be forwarded forthwith to the Treasury, with whom rests the decision in the matter.