§ 63. Mr. ANDERSONasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether cases have been brought to his notice in which soldiers discharged from the Army because of temporary or permanent mental disturbance due to the strain of modern conditions of warfare have been placed in asylums and their parents called upon to contribute to their maintenance; whether some of these soldiers arc classified as pauper lunatics; whether, in the case of a married soldier, the separation allowance stops, leaving his wife and family to have resort to Poor Law relief; and what steps he proposes to take to place the whole question on a more satisfactory footing?
§ Mr. FORSTERNo, Sir. Where lunacy is caused by military service the soldier's pension is more than sufficient to meet any claim the guardians may see fit to raise for the man's maintenance, and no contribution from the parents is necessary. Separation allowance is succeeded by pension in these cases.