§ 24. Mr. ANDERSONasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been drawn to a case which came before the Manchester tribunal on 3rd March, when an applicant who had been twice rejected stated he was unable to produce his certificate of rejection, because when he took it to the recruiting station at Houldsworth Hall an official there, after examining it, tore it up; that the military representative, on being asked by the chairman whether this story could be true, replied that he supposed the man's statement was quite right as something of this sort was done at one time; that the application for exemption was refused; and what action, if any, the Government propose to take to ascertain in how many thousands of cases medical certificates have wrongfully been torn up, and on whose authority and for what purpose this action has been taken?
§ Mr. TENNANTNo, Sir, my attention had not been drawn to this case, but I am having inquiry made, and I will inform my hon. Friend of the result.