§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLTo ask the Secretary of State for War, whether he is aware that no fewer than 1,029 men who served in the Crimea or the Indian Munity, or both those campaigns, were on the 24th January last inmates of workhouses in the United Kingdom; and what explanation, if any, has the War Office to offer of this circumstance, or what remedies, if any, are proposed.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) I am not in a position to confirm the accuracy of the figures quoted by the hon. Member. All Crimean and Mutiny 1195 veterans who have been awarded a war medal, if of the age of seventy and in necessitous circumstances, are eligible for a pension of at least 1s. a day, and at the present date practically all these veterans have reached the age of seventy. In special cases such as wounded men and others, increases of pension above 1s. a day may be granted.