§ 32. Mr. ALLEN BAKERasked the Home Secretary if his attention has been called to an act of bravery and self-sacrifice on the part of Police-Constable Alfred Smith, of Fins-bury, performed during the air raid on London on the 13th instant, by which he lost his own life in his successful endeavour to get a large number of factory workers, mostly female, who had come into the street, which was being bombed, back into the building, thus in the per- 514 formance of his duty saving many lives while losing his own; and has any special provision been made for the widow and child of the deceased constable?
§ Sir G. CAVEThe Commissioner of Police has already brought to my notice the circumstances in which this brave officer was killed, and I have granted to his widow and child the highest pension which the Police Act provides in the case of constables killed in the execution of their duty.
§ Mr. BAKERIs it not a fact that had he lived one more year he would have had a larger pension? Would the right hon. Gentleman consider whether the larger pension might be granted?
§ Sir G. CAVEI was not aware of that fact, but I shall certainly go to the utmost limits in my power.