§ 75. Mr. GILBERTasked the Minister of National Service whether he is aware that Mr. A. F. W. Rumsey, a commercial traveller in the woollen trade, aged forty-three, and graded 2, was decertified under the Order of 9th April last, and held a certificate valid until 11th October next from the Huddersfield Tribunal, on business grounds he appealed at his home to the Cambridge Tribunal and was refused, not satisfied with has grading he appealed to the regional director, East Anglia, and was told he could apply for re-examination by a medical board, on this he applied at the Hotel Windsor for instructions, and was referred by them to the London regional headquarters, by whom, without any question, he was sent to and examined by a medical board at Whitehall, and graded 3; on this he applied to go to the tribunal again on the regrading, and was told he had committed a grave breach of etiquette in going outside the East Anglian region; his solicitor then wrote the director, who first agreed to rehearing and afterwards refused it, and he was ordered to join up forthwith under pain of arrest, and is now in the Army Service Corps Motor Transport Department; and whether he will have this man released at once, as he has double rupture and varicose veins, and he is graded 3 by the medical board at Whitehall?
§ The MINISTER of NATIONAL SERVICE (Sir Auckland Geddes)Inquiries are being made, and I will communicate the result to my hon. Friend.